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Hyper-minimizing minimized deterministic finite state automata

Andrew Badr, Viliam Geffert, Ian Shipman (2007)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

We present the first (polynomial-time) algorithm for reducing a given deterministic finite state automaton (DFA) into a hyper-minimized DFA, which may have fewer states than the classically minimized DFA. The price we pay is that the language recognized by the new machine can differ from the original on a finite number of inputs. These hyper-minimized automata are optimal, in the sense that every DFA with fewer states must disagree on infinitely many inputs. With small modifications, the construction...

Imre Simon : an exceptional graduate student

Denis Thérien (2005)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications

This short note reviews the main contributions of the Ph.D. thesis of Imre Simon. His graduate work had major impact on algebraic theory of automata and thirty years later we are in a good position to appreciate how sensitive he was in selecting good problems, and how clever in solving them!

Imre Simon: an exceptional graduate student

Denis Thérien (2010)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

This short note reviews the main contributions of the Ph.D. thesis of Imre Simon. His graduate work had major impact on algebraic theory of automata and thirty years later we are in a good position to appreciate how sensitive he was in selecting good problems, and how clever in solving them!

Infinite periodic points of endomorphisms over special confluent rewriting systems

Julien Cassaigne, Pedro V. Silva (2009)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

We consider endomorphisms of a monoid defined by a special confluent rewriting system that admit a continuous extension to the completion given by reduced infinite words, and study from a dynamical viewpoint the nature of their infinite periodic points. For prefix-convergent endomorphisms and expanding endomorphisms, we determine the structure of the set of all infinite periodic points in terms of adherence values, bound the periods and show that all regular periodic points are attractors.

Iteration of rational transductions

Alain Terlutte, David Simplot (2010)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

The purpose of this paper is to show connections between iterated length-preserving rational transductions and linear space computations. Hence, we study the smallest family of transductions containing length-preserving rational transductions and closed under union, composition and iteration. We give several characterizations of this class using restricted classes of length-preserving rational transductions, by showing the connections with "context-sensitive transductions" and transductions associated...

New applications of the wreath product of forest algebras

Howard Straubing (2013)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications

We give several new applications of the wreath product of forest algebras to the study of logics on trees. These include new simplified proofs of necessary conditions for definability in CTL and first-order logic with the ancestor relation; a sequence of identities satisfied by all forest languages definable in PDL; and new examples of languages outside CTL, along with an application to the question of what properties are definable in both CTL and LTL.

On abelian repetition threshold

Alexey V. Samsonov, Arseny M. Shur (2012)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications

We study the avoidance of Abelian powers of words and consider three reasonable generalizations of the notion of Abelian power to fractional powers. Our main goal is to find an Abelian analogue of the repetition threshold, i.e., a numerical value separating k-avoidable and k-unavoidable Abelian powers for each size k of the alphabet. We prove lower bounds for the Abelian repetition threshold for large alphabets and all definitions of Abelian fractional power. We develop a method estimating the exponential...

On Abelian repetition threshold

Alexey V. Samsonov, Arseny M. Shur (2012)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

We study the avoidance of Abelian powers of words and consider three reasonable generalizations of the notion of Abelian power to fractional powers. Our main goal is to find an Abelian analogue of the repetition threshold, i.e., a numerical value separating k-avoidable and k-unavoidable Abelian powers for each size k of the alphabet. We prove lower bounds for the Abelian repetition threshold for large alphabets and all definitions of Abelian fractional ...

On an algorithm to decide whether a free group is a free factor of another

Pedro V. Silva, Pascal Weil (2008)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications

We revisit the problem of deciding whether a finitely generated subgroup H is a free factor of a given free group F . Known algorithms solve this problem in time polynomial in the sum of the lengths of the generators of H and exponential in the rank of F . We show that the latter dependency can be made exponential in the rank difference rank ( F ) - rank ( H ) , which often makes a significant change.

On an algorithm to decide whether a free group is a free factor of another

Pedro V. Silva, Pascal Weil (2007)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

We revisit the problem of deciding whether a finitely generated subgroup H is a free factor of a given free group F. Known algorithms solve this problem in time polynomial in the sum of the lengths of the generators of H and exponential in the rank of F. We show that the latter dependency can be made exponential in the rank difference rank(F) - rank(H), which often makes a significant change.

On biautomata

Ondřej Klíma, Libor Polák (2012)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications

We initiate the theory and applications of biautomata. A biautomaton can read a word alternately from the left and from the right. We assign to each regular language L its canonical biautomaton. This structure plays, among all biautomata recognizing the language L, the same role as the minimal deterministic automaton has among all deterministic automata recognizing the language L. We expect that from the graph structure of this automaton one could decide the membership of a given language for certain...

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