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Star Height via Games

Logic in Computer Science 2017-08-14 v1 Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Abstract

This paper proposes a new algorithm deciding the star height problem. As shown by Kirsten, the star height problem reduces to a problem concerning automata with counters, called limitedness. The new contribution is a different algorithm for the limitedness problem, which reduces it to solving a Gale-Stewart game with an {\omega}-regular winning condition.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1708.03603,
  title  = {Star Height via Games},
  author = {Mikolaj Bojanczyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.03603},
  year   = {2017}
}
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