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We define a quantum computational model over infinite words, called Measure-Many Quantum B\"uchi Automata (MMQBA), which extends Measure-many Quantum Finite automata (MMQFA) to the infinite word setting with B\"uchi acceptance condition. In…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Abhisek Midya , A Baskar

We give a potential alternative definition of a weak infinite dimensional category, in an unbiased fashion, using one one dimensional quiver with composition and extra structure.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Bertalan Pécsi

Model checking properties are often described by means of finite automata. Any particular such automaton divides the set of infinite trees into finitely many classes, according to which state has an infinite run. Building the full type…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Klaus Aehlig

Some of the most interesting and important results concerning quantum finite automata are those showing that they can recognize certain languages with (much) less resources than corresponding classical finite automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Shenggen Zheng , Jozef Gruska , Daowen Qiu

We generalize some of the central results in automata theory to the abstraction level of coalgebras and thus lay out the foundations of a universal theory of automata operating on infinite objects. Let F be any set functor that preserves…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 C. Kupke , Y. Venema

Formal languages are sets of strings of symbols described by a set of rules specific to them. In this note, we discuss a certain class of formal languages, called regular languages, and put forward some elementary results. The properties of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Aalok Thakkar

In this work we define formal grammars in terms of free monoidal categories, along with a functor from the category of formal grammars to the category of automata. Generalising from the Booleans to arbitrary semirings, we extend our…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Dan Shiebler , Alexis Toumi , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

We contribute to the refined understanding of the language-logic-algebra interplay in the context of first-order properties of countable words. We establish decidable algebraic characterizations of one variable fragment of FO as well as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Bharat Adsul , Saptarshi Sarkar , A. V. Sreejith

The article defines and studies the genus of finite state deterministic automata (FSA) and regular languages. Indeed, a FSA can be seen as a graph for which the notion of genus arises. At the same time, a FSA has a semantics via its…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Guillaume Bonfante , Florian Deloup

We consider two-variable first-order logic FO2 over infinite words. Restricting the number of nested negations defines an infinite hierarchy; its levels are often called the half-levels of the FO2 quantifier alternation hierarchy. For every…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Viktor Henriksson , Manfred Kufleitner

We introduce a certain restriction of weighted automata over the rationals, called image-binary automata. We show that such automata accept the regular languages, can be exponentially more succinct than corresponding NFAs, and allow for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Stefan Kiefer , Cas Widdershoven

We show that deterministic finite automata equipped with $k$ two-way heads are equivalent to deterministic machines with a single two-way input head and $k-1$ linearly bounded counters if the accepted language is strictly bounded, i.e., a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-07 Holger Petersen

In a one-counter automaton (OCA), one can produce a letter from some finite alphabet, increment and decrement the counter by one, or compare it with constants up to some threshold. It is well-known that universality and language inclusion…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Benedikt Bollig

Finite-turn pushdown automata (PDA) are investigated concerning their descriptional complexity. It is known that they accept exactly the class of ultralinear context-free languages. Furthermore, the increase in size when converting…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-08 Andreas Malcher , Giovanni Pighizzini

This is Chapter 24 in the "AutoMathA" handbook. Finite automata have been used effectively in recent years to define infinite groups. The two main lines of research have as their most representative objects the class of automatic groups…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Laurent Bartholdi , Pedro V. Silva

We survey recent results concerning the complexity of regular languages represented by their minimal deterministic finite automata. In addition to the quotient complexity of the language -- which is the number of its (left) quotients, and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Janusz A. Brzozowski

We compare the expressiveness of two extensions of monadic second-order logic (MSO) over the class of finite structures. The first, counting monadic second-order logic (CMSO), extends MSO with first-order modulo-counting quantifiers,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-03-20 Tobias Ganzow , Sasha Rubin

A study of assisted problem solving formalized via decompositions of deterministic finite automata is initiated. The landscape of new types of decompositions of finite automata this study uncovered is presented. Languages with various…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-07-04 Peter Gaži , Branislav Rovan

In the classic problem of sequence prediction, a predictor receives a sequence of values from an emitter and tries to guess the next value before it appears. The predictor masters the emitter if there is a point after which all of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Tim Smith

We present a base class of automata that induce a numeration system and we give an algorithm to give the n-th word in the language of the automaton when the expansion of n in the induced numeration system is feeded to the automaton.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 J. F. J. Laros