English

Aperiodic two-way transducers and FO-transductions

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2021-03-30 v1

Abstract

Deterministic two-way transducers on finite words have been shown by Engelfriet and Hoogeboom to have the same expressive power as MSO-transductions. We introduce a notion of aperiodicity for these transducers and we show that aperiodic transducers correspond exactly to FO-transductions. This lifts to transducers the classical equivalence for languages between FO-definability, recognition by aperiodic monoids and acceptance by counter-free automata.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2103.15651,
  title  = {Aperiodic two-way transducers and FO-transductions},
  author = {Olivier Carton and Luc Dartois},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.15651},
  year   = {2021}
}
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