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The minimal probabilistic and quantum finite automata recognizing uncountably many languages with fixed cutpoints

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2023-06-22 v4 Computational Complexity Quantum Physics

Abstract

It is known that 2-state binary and 3-state unary probabilistic finite automata and 2-state unary quantum finite automata recognize uncountably many languages with cutpoints. These results have been obtained by associating each recognized language with a cutpoint and then by using the fact that there are uncountably many cutpoints. In this note, we prove the same results for fixed cutpoints: each recognized language is associated with an automaton (i.e., algorithm), and the proofs use the fact that there are uncountably many automata. For each case, we present a new construction.

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@article{arxiv.1904.01381,
  title  = {The minimal probabilistic and quantum finite automata recognizing uncountably many languages with fixed cutpoints},
  author = {Aleksejs Naumovs and Maksims Dimitrijevs and Abuzer Yakaryılmaz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.01381},
  year   = {2023}
}

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12 pages, minor revisions, changing the format to "dmtcs-episciences" style