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Efficient Algorithms for Morphisms over Omega-Regular Languages

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2015-11-10 v2 Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

Morphisms to finite semigroups can be used for recognizing omega-regular languages. The so-called strongly recognizing morphisms can be seen as a deterministic computation model which provides minimal objects (known as the syntactic morphism) and a trivial complementation procedure. We give a quadratic-time algorithm for computing the syntactic morphism from any given strongly recognizing morphism, thereby showing that minimization is easy as well. In addition, we give algorithms for efficiently solving various decision problems for weakly recognizing morphisms. Weakly recognizing morphism are often smaller than their strongly recognizing counterparts. Finally, we describe the language operations needed for converting formulas in monadic second-order logic (MSO) into strongly recognizing morphisms, and we give some experimental results.

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@article{arxiv.1509.06215,
  title  = {Efficient Algorithms for Morphisms over Omega-Regular Languages},
  author = {Lukas Fleischer and Manfred Kufleitner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.06215},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Full version of a paper accepted to FSTTCS 2015

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