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We consider $\omega^n$-automatic structures which are relational structures whose domain and relations are accepted by automata reading ordinal words of length $\omega^n$ for some integer $n\geq 1$. We show that all these structures are…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-02-02 Olivier Finkel , Stevo Todorcevic

We present the first polynomial time algorithm to learn nontrivial classes of languages of infinite trees. Specifically, our algorithm uses membership and equivalence queries to learn classes of $\omega$-tree languages derived from weak…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Dana Angluin , Timos Antonopoulos , Dana Fisman

We prove that, for any natural number n $\ge$ 1, we can find a finite alphabet $\Sigma$ and a finitary language L over $\Sigma$ accepted by a one-counter automaton, such that the $\omega$-power L $\infty$ := {w 0 w 1. .. $\in$ $\Sigma$…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Olivier Finkel , Dominique Lecomte

This work addresses the problem of computing measures of recognisable sets of infinite trees. An algorithm is provided to compute the probability measure of a tree language recognisable by a weak alternating automaton, or equivalently…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Damian Niwiński , Marcin Przybyłko , Michał Skrzypczak

We study the portraits of isometries of rooted trees - the labelling of the tree, at each vertex, by the permutation of its descendants - in terms of languages. We characterize regularly branched self-similar groups in terms of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Laurent Bartholdi , Marialaura Noce

We study tree languages that can be defined in \Delta_2 . These are tree languages definable by a first-order formula whose quantifier prefix is forall exists, and simultaneously by a first-order formula whose quantifier prefix is . For the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Mikolaj Bojanczyk , Luc Segoufin

Let D denote an infinite alphabet -- a set that consists of infinitely many symbols. A word w = a_0 b_0 a_1 b_1 ... a_n b_n of even length over D can be viewed as a directed graph G_w whose vertices are the symbols that appear in w, and the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-11 Tony Tan

The parity index problem of tree automata asks, given a regular tree language L, what is the least number of priorities of a nondeterministic parity tree automaton that recognises L. This is a long-standing open problem, also known as the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Olivier Idir , Karoliina Lehtinen

We explore from an algebraic viewpoint the properties of the tree languages definable with a first-order formula involving the ancestor predicate, using the description of these languages as those recognized by iterated block products of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Martin Beaudry

It is proved that the family of tree languages recognized by nondeterministic tree-walking automata is not closed under complementation, solving a problem raised by Boja\'nczyk and Colcombet ("Tree-walking automata do not recognize all…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Olga Martynova , Alexander Okhotin

It is well known that for a regular tree language it is decidable whether or not it can be recognized by a deterministic top-down tree automaton (DTA). However, the computational complexity of this problem has not been studied. We show that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Peter Leupold , Sebastian Maneth

This paper investigates acceptance conditions for finite automata recognizing omega-regular languages. As a first result, we show that, under any acceptance condition that can be defined in the MSO logic, a finite automaton can recognize at…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-21 Julien Cervelle , Alberto Dennunzio , Enrico Formenti , Julien Provillard

We consider the problem of computing the probability of regular languages of infinite trees with respect to the natural coin-flipping measure. We propose an algorithm which computes the probability of languages recognizable by \emph{game…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-07 Henryk Michalewski , Matteo Mio

We prove the following surprising result: there exist a 1-counter B\"uchi automaton and a 2-tape B\"uchi automaton such that the \omega-language of the first and the infinitary rational relation of the second in one model of ZFC are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Olivier Finkel

A regular tree language L is locally testable if membership of a tree in L depends only on the presence or absence of some fix set of neighborhoods in the tree. In this paper we show that it is decidable whether a regular tree language is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Thomas Place , Luc Segoufin

Due to the works of S. Bozapalidis and A. Alexandrakis, there is a well-known characterization of recognizable weighted tree languages over fields in terms of finite-dimensionality of syntactic vector spaces. Here we prove a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zoltán Fülöp , Heiko Vogler

$\omega$-clones are multi-sorted structures that naturally emerge as algebras for infinite trees, just as $\omega$-semigroups are convenient algebras for infinite words. In the algebraic theory of languages, one hopes that a language is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Bartek Klin

We give an algebraic characterization of the tree languages that are defined by logical formulas using certain Lindstr\"om quantifiers. An important instance of our result concerns first-order definable tree languages. Our characterization…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-21 Zoltan Esik , Pascal Weil

In a recent paper, Altenbernd, Thomas and W\"ohrle have considered acceptance of languages of infinite two-dimensional words (infinite pictures) by finite tiling systems, with the usual acceptance conditions, such as the B\"uchi and Muller…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-01-27 Olivier Finkel

We consider the set of infinite real traces, over a dependence alphabet (Gamma, D) with no isolated letter, equipped with the topology induced by the prefix metric. We then prove that all rational languages of infinite real traces are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-01-04 Olivier Finkel , Jean-Pierre Ressayre , Pierre Simonnet