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Dual Adjunction Between $\Omega$-Automata and Wilke Algebra Quotients

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2024-11-25 v2

Abstract

Ω\Omega-automata and Wilke algebras are formalisms for characterising ω\omega-regular languages via their ultimately periodic words. Ω\Omega-automata read finite representations of ultimately periodic words, called lassos, and they are a subclass of lasso automata. We introduce lasso semigroups as a generalisation of Wilke algebras that mirrors how lasso automata generalise Ω\Omega-automata, and we show that finite lasso semigroups characterise regular lasso languages. We then show a dual adjunction between lasso automata and quotients of the free lasso semigroup with a recognising set, and as our main result we show that this dual adjunction restricts to one between Ω\Omega-automata and quotients of the free Wilke algebra with a recognising set.

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@article{arxiv.2407.14115,
  title  = {Dual Adjunction Between $\Omega$-Automata and Wilke Algebra Quotients},
  author = {Anton Chernev and Helle Hvid Hansen and Clemens Kupke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.14115},
  year   = {2024}
}