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Representing a P-complete problem by small trellis automata

Computational Complexity 2009-06-18 v1 Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Abstract

A restricted case of the Circuit Value Problem known as the Sequential NOR Circuit Value Problem was recently used to obtain very succinct examples of conjunctive grammars, Boolean grammars and language equations representing P-complete languages (Okhotin, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74593-8_23 "A simple P-complete problem and its representations by language equations", MCU 2007). In this paper, a new encoding of the same problem is proposed, and a trellis automaton (one-way real-time cellular automaton) with 11 states solving this problem is constructed.

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@article{arxiv.0906.3208,
  title  = {Representing a P-complete problem by small trellis automata},
  author = {Alexander Okhotin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.3208},
  year   = {2009}
}
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