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On Orbits and the Finiteness of Bounded Automaton Groups

Group Theory 2021-09-09 v3 Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Abstract

We devise an algorithm which, given a bounded automaton A, decides whether the group generated by A is finite. The solution comes from a description of the infinite sequences having an infinite A-orbit using a deterministic finite-state acceptor. This acceptor can also be used to decide whether the bounded automaton acts level-transitively.

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@article{arxiv.1912.06897,
  title  = {On Orbits and the Finiteness of Bounded Automaton Groups},
  author = {Ievgen Bondarenko and Jan Philipp Wächter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.06897},
  year   = {2021}
}

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