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One-counter automata (OCA) are pushdown automata which operate only on a unary stack alphabet. We study the computational complexity of model checking computation tree logic (CTL) on transition systems induced by OCA. A PSPACE upper bound is inherited from the modal μ-calculus for this problem proved by Serre. First, we analyze the periodic behavior of CTL over OCA and derive a model checking algorithm whose running time is exponential only in the number of control locations and a syntactic notion of the formula that we call leftward until depth. In particular, model checking fixed OCA against CTL formulas with a fixed leftward until depth is in P. This generalizes a corresponding recent result of Göller, Mayr, and To for the expression complexity of CTL's fragment EF. Second, we prove that already over some fixed OCA, CTL model checking is PSPACE-hard, i.e., expression complexity is PSPACE-hard. Third, we show that there already exists a fixed CTL formula for which model checking of OCA is PSPACE-hard, i.e., data complexity is PSPACE-hard as well. To obtain the latter result, we employ two results from complexity theory: (i) Converting a natural number in Chinese remainder presentation into binary presentation is in logspace-uniform NC¹ and (ii) PSPACE is AC0-serializable. We demonstrate that our approach can be used to obtain further results. We show that model checking CTL's fragment EF over OCA is hard for PNP, thus establishing a matching lower bound. Moreover, we show that the following problem is hard for PSPACE: Given a one-counter Markov decision process, a set of target states with counter value zero each, and an initial state, to decide whether the probability that the initial state will eventually reach one of the target states is arbitrarily close to 1. This improves a recently proved lower bound for every level of the boolean hierarchy shown by Brázdil et al. Finally, we prove that there is a fixed CTL formula for which model checking 2-clock timed automata is PSPACE-hard, generalizing a PSPACE-hardness result for the combined complexity by Laroussinie, Markey, and Schnoebelen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We consider a compressed form of the word problem for finitely presented monoids, where the input consists of two compressed representations of words over the generators of a monoid M, and we ask whether these two words represent the same monoid element of M. Words are compressed using straight-line programs, i.e., context-free grammars that generate exactly one word. For several classes of finitely presented monoids we obtain completeness results for complexity classes in the range from P to EXPSPACE. As a by-product of our results on compressed word problems we obtain a fixed deterministic context-free language with a PSPACE-complete compressed membership problem. The existence of such a language was open so far. Finally, we will investigate the complexity of the compressed membership problem for various circuit complexity classes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]