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Constraints over finite sequences of variables are ubiquitous in sequencing and timetabling. Moreover, the wide variety of such constraints in practical applications led to general modelling techniques and generic propagation algorithms,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-30 Nicolas Beldiceanu , Pierre Flener , Justin Pearson , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Given a nondeterministic finite-state automaton (NFA), we aim to estimate the size of an equivalent deterministic finite-state automaton (DFA). We demonstrate that computing the state complexity of an NFA within polynomial precision is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ivan Baburin , Ryan Cotterell

We examine questions involving nondeterministic finite automata where all states are final, initial, or both initial and final. First, we prove hardness results for the nonuniversality and inequivalence problems for these NFAs. Next, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-07-03 Jui-Yi Kao , Narad Rampersad , Jeffrey Shallit

We consider the computability and complexity of decision questions for Probabilistic Finite Automata (PFA) with sub-exponential ambiguity. We show that the emptiness problem for strict and non-strict cut-points of polynomially ambiguous…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Paul C. Bell

Our previous work dealt with the zeta function for the interacting particle system (IPS) including quantum cellular automaton (QCA) as a typical model in the study of ``IPS/Zeta Correspondence". On the other hand, the absolute zeta function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Jirô Akahori , Norio Konno , Iwao Sato

For a wide range of functions $W\colon\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{N}$, we establish a general result for estimating weighted averages of the form \[ \mathbb{E}^{W}_{n \le N} f(\vartheta(n))= \frac{1}{W(N)}\sum_{n=1}^N (W(n)-W(n-1))f(\vartheta(n)),…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Vitaly Bergelson , Michael Reilly , Florian K. Richter

Finite automata are used to encode geometric figures, functions and can be used for image compression and processing. The original approach is to represent each point of a figure in $\mathbb{R}^n$ as a convolution of its $n$ coordinates…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Dmitry Berdinsky , Prohrak Kruengthomya

This paper considers finite-automata based algorithms for handling linear arithmetic with both real and integer variables. Previous work has shown that this theory can be dealt with by using finite automata on infinite words, but this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Bernard Boigelot , Sebastien Jodogne , Pierre Wolper

In this paper the notion of quantum finite one-counter automata (QF1CA) is introduced. Introduction of the notion is similar to that of the 2-way quantum finite state automata by A.Kondacs and J.Watrous. The well-formedness conditions for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maksim Kravtsev

A word-to-word function is rational if it can be realized by a non-deterministic one-way transducer. Over finite words, it is a classical result that any rational function is regular, i.e. it can be computed by a deterministic two-way…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Olivier Carton , Gaëtan Douéneau-Tabot

Wheeler nondeterministic finite automata (WNFAs) were introduced as a generalization of prefix sorting from strings to labeled graphs. WNFAs admit optimal solutions to classic hard problems on labeled graphs and languages. The problem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ruben Becker , Manuel Cáceres , Davide Cenzato , Sung-Hwan Kim , Bojana Kodric , Francisco Olivares , Nicola Prezza

Extracting finite state automata (FSAs) from black-box models offers a powerful approach to gaining interpretable insights into complex model behaviors. To support this pursuit, we present a weighted variant of Angluin's (1987)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Clemente Pasti , Talu Karagöz , Anej Svete , Franz Nowak , Reda Boumasmoud , Ryan Cotterell

In this paper we study a generalized model named one-way general quantum finite automata} (1gQFA), in which each symbol in the input alphabet induces a trace-preserving quantum operation, instead of a unitary transformation. Two different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-26 Lvzhou Li , Daowen Qiu , Xiangfu Zou , Lvjun Li , Lihua Wu , Paulo Mateus

We compute the dependence on the classical action "gauge" parameters of the beta functions of the standard topological sigma model in flat space. We thus show that their value is a "gauge" artifact indeed. We also show that previously…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Luis Alvarez-Consul , C. P. Martin

We prove that $\omega$-regular languages accepted by B\"uchi or Muller automata satisfy an effective automata-theoretic version of the Baire property. Then we use this result to obtain a new effective property of rational functions over…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Olivier Finkel

This paper investigates the utility of the weighted Birkhoff average (WBA) for distinguishing between regular and chaotic orbits of flows, extending previous results that applied the WBA to maps. It is shown that the WBA can be…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Nathan Duignan , James D. Meiss

The determinisation problem for min-plus (tropical) weighted automata was recently shown to be decidable. However, the proof is purely existential, relying on several non-constructive arguments. Our contribution in this work is twofold:…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Shaull Almagor , Guy Arbel , Sarai Sheinvald

We study the connective constants of weighted self-avoiding walks (SAWs) on infinite graphs and groups. The main focus is upon weighted SAWs on finitely generated, virtually indicable groups. Such groups possess so-called 'height…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Geoffrey R. Grimmett , Zhongyang Li

Tree automata based algorithms are essential in many fields in computer science such as verification, specification, program analysis. They become also essential for databases with the development of standards such as XML. In this paper, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 J. Carme , R. Gilleron , A. Lemay , A. Terlutte , M. Tommasi

Affine automata provide a finite-state computational model that preserves the linear-algebraic structure of quantum computation while operating entirely over the reals. Recent work has shown that affine automata can far surpass classical…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zeyu Chen , Junde Wu