How fast can you escape a compact polytope?

Julian D'Costa, Engel Lefaucheux, Joël Ouaknine, and James Worrell

The Continuous Polytope Escape Problem (CPEP) asks whether every trajectory of a linear differential equation initialised within a convex polytope eventually escapes the polytope. We provide a polynomial-time algorithm to decide CPEP for compact polytopes. We also establish a quantitative uniform upper bound on the time required for every trajectory to escape the given polytope. In addition, we establish iteration bounds for termination of discrete linear loops via reduction to the continuous case.

Proceedings of STACS 20, LIPIcs 154, 2020. 20 pages.

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