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A trichotomy for regular simple path queries on graphs

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We focus on the computational complexity of regular simple path queries (RSPQs). We consider the following problem RSPQ(L) for a regular language L: given an edge-labeled digraph Gand two nodes xand y, is there a simple path from x to y that forms a word belonging to L? We fully characterize the frontier between tractability and intractability for RSPQ(L). More precisely, we prove RSPQ(L)is either AC0, NL-complete or NP-complete depending on the language L. We also provide a simple characterization of the tractable fragment in terms of regular expressions. Finally, we also discuss the complexity of deciding whether a language L belongs to the fragment above. We consider several alternative representations of L: DFAs, NFAs or regular expressions, and prove that this problem is NL-complete for the first representation and PSpace-complete for the other two.

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hal-02435355 , version 1 (25-09-2020)

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Guillaume Bagan, Angela Bonifati, Benoit Groz. A trichotomy for regular simple path queries on graphs. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 2020, 108, pp.29-48. ⟨10.1016/j.jcss.2019.08.006⟩. ⟨hal-02435355⟩
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