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We present an efficient algorithm for checking language equivalence of states in top-down deterministic finite tree automata (DFTAs). Unlike string automata, tree automata operate over hierarchical structures, posing unique challenges for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zhibo Deng , Vladimir A. Zakharov

This paper presents a decidable characterization of tree languages that can be defined by a boolean combination of Sigma_1 sentences. This is a tree extension of the Simon theorem, which says that a string language can be defined by a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Luc Segoufin , Howard Straubing

We show that there are $\Sigma_3^0$-complete languages of infinite words accepted by non-deterministic Petri nets with B\"uchi acceptance condition, or equivalently by B\"uchi blind counter automata. This shows that omega-languages accepted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Olivier Finkel , Michał Skrzypczak

An $\omega$-tree-automatic structure is a relational structure whose domain and relations are accepted by Muller or Rabin tree automata. We investigate in this paper the isomorphism problem for $\omega$-tree-automatic structures. We prove…

Logic · Mathematics 2010-07-26 Olivier Finkel , Stevo Todorcevic

We show that, from the topological point of view, 2-tape B\"uchi automata have the same accepting power as Turing machines equipped with a B\"uchi acceptance condition. The Borel and the Wadge hierarchies of the class RAT_omega of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-01-04 Olivier Finkel

We study finite automata running over infinite binary trees. A run of such an automaton is usually said to be accepting if all its branches are accepting. In this article, we relax the notion of accepting run by allowing a certain quantity…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-15 Arnaud Carayol , Axel Haddad , Olivier Serre

We survey recent results on the topological complexity of context-free omega-languages which form the second level of the Chomsky hierarchy of languages of infinite words. In particular, we consider the Borel hierarchy and the Wadge…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-14 Olivier Finkel

We use the recently developed theory of forest algebras to find algebraic characterizations of the languages of unranked trees and forests definable in various logics. These include the temporal logics CTL and EF, and first-order logic over…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Mikolaj Bojanczyk , Igor Walukiewicz , Howard Straubing

We develop and explore the idea of recognition of languages (in the general sense of subsets of topological algebras) as preimages of clopen sets under continuous homomorphisms into Stone topological algebras. We obtain an Eilenberg…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jorge Almeida , Ondřej Klíma

In this paper, we study arbitrary regular factorial languages over a finite alphabet $\Sigma$. For the set of words $L(n)$ of the length $n$ belonging to a regular factorial language $L$, we investigate the depth of decision trees solving…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Mikhail Moshkov

We study the dynamic membership problem for regular tree languages under relabeling updates: we fix an alphabet $\Sigma$ and a regular tree language $L$ over $\Sigma$ (expressed, e.g., as a tree automaton), we are given a tree $T$ with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Antoine Amarilli , Corentin Barloy , Louis Jachiet , Charles Paperman

The HOM problem, which asks whether the image of a regular tree language under a given tree homomorphism is again regular, is known to be decidable [Godoy & Gim\'enez: The HOM problem is decidable. JACM 60(4), 2013]. However, the problem…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Andreas Maletti , Andreea-Teodora Nász

We examine languages of unranked forests definable using the temporal operators EF and EX. We characterize the languages definable in this logic, and various fragments thereof, using the syntactic forest algebras introduced by Bojanczyk and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-06 Andreas Krebs , Howard Straubing

Towards a future where machine learning systems will integrate into every aspect of people's lives, researching methods to interpret such systems is necessary, instead of focusing exclusively on enhancing their performance. Enriching the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Ioannis Mollas , Nick Bassiliades , Ioannis Vlahavas , Grigorios Tsoumakas

We study the matching problem of regular tree languages, that is, "$\exists \sigma:\sigma(L)\subseteq R$?" where $L,R$ are regular tree languages over the union of finite ranked alphabets $\Sigma$ and $\mathcal{X}$ where $\mathcal{X}$ is an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Carlos Camino , Volker Diekert , Besik Dundua , Mircea Marin , Géraud Sénizergues

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

A Wheeler automaton is a finite state automaton whose states admit a total Wheeler order, reflecting the co-lexicographic order of the strings labeling source-to-node paths. A Wheeler language is a regular language admitting an accepting…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ruben Becker , Davide Cenzato , Sung-Hwan Kim , Bojana Kodric , Alberto Policriti , Nicola Prezza

A tree diagram is a tree with positive integral weight on each edge, which is a notion generalized from the Dynkin diagrams of finite-dimensional simple Lie algebras. We introduce two nilpotent Lie algebras and their extended solvable Lie…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-07-02 Xiaoping Xu

We prove that the B\"uchi topology and the automatic topology are Polish. We also show that this cannot be fully extended to the case of a space of infinite labelled binary trees; in particular the B\"uchi and the Muller topologies are not…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Olivier Finkel , Olivier Carton , Dominique Lecomte

It is well known that for a given bottom-up tree automaton it can be decided whether or not there exists deterministic top-down tree automaton that recognized the same tree language. Recently it was claimed that such a decision can be…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Sebastian Maneth , Helmut Seidl