2025/12/08 by Klaus Jansen, Jansen, Klaus, Dirk Nowotka +7 · 1 voice
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Formal Methods in Verification #Machine Learning and Algorithms #Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques #cs.CC #cs.FL #math.CO
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2512.07476
openalex publication_date 2025/12/08 · openalex created_date 2025/12/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Patterns are words with terminals and variables. The language of a pattern is the set of words obtained by uniformly substituting all variables with words that contain only terminals. In their original definition, patterns only allow for multiple distinct occurrences of some variables to be related by the equality relation, represented by using the same variable multiple times. In an extended notion, called relational patterns and relational pattern languages, variables may be related by arbitrary other relations, achieved by using regular patterns and relating individual variables independently from the patterns structure separately. We extend the ongoing investigation of the main decision problems for patterns (namely, the equivalence problem, the inclusion problem, and the membership problem) to relational pattern languages under a wide range of relevant individual relations, providing a comprehensive foundation in all three research directions.