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We prove that probabilistic bisimilarity is decidable over probabilistic extensions of BPA and BPP processes. For normed subclasses of probabilistic BPA and BPP processes we obtain polynomial-time algorithms. Further, we show that probabilistic bisimilarity between probabilistic pushdown automata and finite-state systems is decidable in exponential time. If the number of control states in PDA is bounded by a fixed constant, then the algorithm needs only polynomial time.
The work has been supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, grant No. 201/03/1161.
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Brázdil, T., Kučera, A., Stražovský, O. (2004). Deciding Probabilistic Bisimilarity Over Infinite-State Probabilistic Systems. In: Gardner, P., Yoshida, N. (eds) CONCUR 2004 - Concurrency Theory. CONCUR 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3170. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28644-8_13
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