English

Two-way automata and transducers with planar behaviours are aperiodic

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2023-07-21 v1

Abstract

We consider a notion of planarity for two-way finite automata and transducers, inspired by Temperley-Lieb monoids of planar diagrams. We show that this restriction captures star-free languages and first-order transductions.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2307.11057,
  title  = {Two-way automata and transducers with planar behaviours are aperiodic},
  author = {Lê Thành Dũng Nguyên and Camille Noûs and Cécilia Pradic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.11057},
  year   = {2023}
}

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18 pages, DMTCS submission