Decidability Slides

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These slides will be explaining decidability and Rice’s theorem. You can ask if anything is not clear. 

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L(M) is not regular. How is it non monotonic?
L(M) is not regular ---YES case will have all languages except regular languages and NO case will have languages which are not (not regular) i.e. regular. but Yes case is not a subset of no case. Then how non monotonic? where am i going wrong please correct!

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@Astha Take ANY ONE "yes" case and any one "no" case and see if you can get the SUBSET relation. 

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Ok sir... so can I say that a^nb^n being a non regular language (Here, YES case) is a subset of (a+b)*--regular (NO case) . So, non monotonic and hence not even semi decidable?

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Exactly

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Can someone help me understand examples on slide page 23. Not able to get meaning of solutions. For example:

L = { <M> | L(M) = {}] - We can say “no” is M accepts some string, but can we every say “yes” as we need to check infinite number of strings?

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@Arjun Sir,Thanks a lot 

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One doubt regarding Slide no. 30 : Some trivially decidable properties

 L = {<M> | L(M) is countable}   -->  for this language is it correct to argue that since we have diagonalisation procedure, so this problem becomes decidable?

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How diagonalization helps in deciding that? Actually any recursively enumerable language is countable and that is why it becomes a trivial property (Answer is always yes irresepective of the given TM)

Diagonalization proves that there are languages which are not recursively enumerable.

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Ok sir..got it now.

All RE languages and Recursive languages have some enumeration procedure for them and the ones which don't have are non-RE.

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@Arjun sir confused in this one (https://gateoverflow.in/83694/turing-machine).

Understood your answer given there but here can't we create Tyes= {epsilon} Tno= {a,aa,aaa...} ?

For semi-deciding we can say, we may consider a TM having initial state as final state. So for yes instance it can output Yes but cannot say for any NO instance.

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1. Does a given TM accepts empty string?
2. Does any TM accepts empty string?

These two are different right? The question there is for the second one. For 1, what you told is correct. 

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So the capability of moving back is responsible for TM to loop forever.

And as PDA and DFA can do computations only for as many steps as the number of symbols in the input, they can run for EXACTLY |w| steps and will surely stop at some point and will never loop forever. is it correct reasoning?

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Yes for DFA. For PDA slight more change is required to be precise.