English

String Compression in FA-Presentable Structures

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2023-02-03 v1

Abstract

We construct a FA-presentation ψ:LN\psi: L \rightarrow \mathbb{N} of the structure (N;S)(\mathbb{N};\mathrm{S}) for which a numerical characteristic r(n)r(n) defined as the maximum number ψ(w)\psi(w) for all strings wLw \in L of length less than or equal to nn grows faster than any tower of exponents of a fixed height. This result leads us to a more general notion of a compressibility rate defined for FA-presentations of any FA-presentable structure. We show the existence of FA-presentations for the configuration space of a Turing machine and Cayley graphs of some groups for which it grows faster than any tower of exponents of a fixed height. For FA-presentations of the Presburger arithmetic (N;+)(\mathbb{N};+) we show that it is bounded from above by a linear function.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2302.01009,
  title  = {String Compression in FA-Presentable Structures},
  author = {Dmitry Berdinsky and Sanjay Jain and Bakhadyr Khoussainov and Frank Stephan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.01009},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

14 pages; accepted version

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