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Finite-State Complexity and the Size of Transducers

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2010-08-11 v1

Abstract

Finite-state complexity is a variant of algorithmic information theory obtained by replacing Turing machines with finite transducers. We consider the state-size of transducers needed for minimal descriptions of arbitrary strings and, as our main result, we show that the state-size hierarchy with respect to a standard encoding is infinite. We consider also hierarchies yielded by more general computable encodings.

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@article{arxiv.1008.1667,
  title  = {Finite-State Complexity and the Size of Transducers},
  author = {Cristian Calude and Kai Salomaa and Tania Roblot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.1667},
  year   = {2010}
}

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In Proceedings DCFS 2010, arXiv:1008.1270