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On Determinism and Unambiguity of Weighted Two-way Automata

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2014-05-23 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we first study the conversion of weighted two-way automata to one-way automata. We show that this conversion preserves the unambiguity but does not preserve the determinism. Yet, we prove that the conversion of an unambiguous weighted one-way automaton into a two-way automaton leads to a deterministic two-way automaton. As a consequence, we prove that unambiguous weighted two-way automata are equivalent to deterministic weighted two-way automata in commutative semirings.

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@article{arxiv.1405.5602,
  title  = {On Determinism and Unambiguity of Weighted Two-way Automata},
  author = {Vincent Carnino and Sylvain Lombardy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.5602},
  year   = {2014}
}

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