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Are there undecidable properties of non-turing-complete automata?

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Problem

Are there undecidable properties of linear bounded automata (avoiding the empty set language trick)? What about for a deterministic finite automaton? (put aside intractability).

I would like to get an example (if possible) of an undecidable problem that is defined without using Turing machines explicitly.

Is Turing completeness of a model necessary to support uncomputable problems?

Solution

Undecidable problems about context free grammars, and hence, pushdown acceptors as well, which are restricted TMs from Wikipedia...

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Given a CFG, does it generate the language of all strings over the alphabet of terminal symbols used in its rules?

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Given two CFGs, do they generate the same language?

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Given two CFGs, can the first generate all strings that the second can generate?

There are many others about CFGs/PDAs as well as CSGs/LBAs and many other "simpler than TM" models.

Context

StackExchange Computer Science Q#1697, answer score: 15

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