The Complexity of Satisfiability Checking for Symbolic Finite Automata

Abstract: We study the satisfiability problem of symbolic finite automata and decompose it into the satisfiability problem of the theory of the input characters and the monadic second-order theory of the indices of accepted words. We use our decomposition to obtain tight computational complexity bounds on the decision problem for this automata class and an extension that considers linear arithmetic constraints on the underlying effective Boolean algebra.