One-clock synthesis problems

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Authors: Sławomir Lasota, Mathieu Lehaut, Julie Parreaux, Radosław Piórkowski
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Abstract

We study a generalisation of Büchi-Landweber games to the timed setting. The winning condition is specified by a non-deterministic timed automaton, and one of the players can elapse time. We perform a systematic study of synthesis problems in all variants of timed games, depending on which player's winning condition is specified, and which player's strategy (or controller, a finite-memory strategy) is sought. As our main result we prove ubiquitous undecidability in all the variants, both for strategy and controller synthesis, already for winning conditions specified by one-clock automata. This strengthens and generalises previously known undecidability results. We also fully characterise those cases where finite memory is sufficient to win, namely existence of a strategy implies existence of a controller. All our results are stated in the timed setting, while analogous results hold in the data setting where one-clock automata are replaced by one-register ones.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Formal Methods in Verification semigroups and automata theory Petri Nets in System Modeling

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
8 January 2026
Document type
Preprint