# From LTL and Limit-Deterministic Büchi Automata to Deterministic Parity Automata

@article{Esparza2017FromLA,
title={From LTL and Limit-Deterministic B{\"u}chi Automata to Deterministic Parity Automata},
author={Javier Esparza and Jan Křet{\'i}nsk{\'y} and Jean-François Raskin and Salomon Sickert},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2017},
volume={abs/1701.06103}
}
• Published 21 January 2017
• Computer Science
• ArXiv
Controller synthesis for general linear temporal logic (LTL) objectives is a challenging task. The standard approach involves translating the LTL objective into a deterministic parity automaton (DPA) by means of the Safra-Piterman construction. One of the challenges is the size of the DPA, which often grows very fast in practice, and can reach double exponential size in the length of the LTL formula. In this paper we describe a single exponential translation from limit-deterministic Buchi…

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