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The paper is devoted to two types of algebraic models of automata. The usual (first type) model leads to the developed decomposition theory (Krohn-Rhodes theory). We introduce another type of automata model and study how these automata are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Boris Plotkin , Tatjana Plotkin

In this paper we develop little further the theory of quantum finite automata (QFA). There are already few properties of QFA known, that deterministic and probabilistic finite automata do not have e.g. they cannot recognize all regular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maris Valdats

Reversible weighted automata are introduced and considered in a specific setting where the weights are taken from a nontrivial locally finite commutative ring such as a finite field. It is shown that the supports of series realised by such…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Peter Kostolányi , Andrej Ravinger

We discuss a topological approach to words introduced by the author. Words on an arbitrary alphabet are approximated by Gauss words and then studied up to natural modifications inspired by the Reidemeister moves on knot diagrams. This leads…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Turaev

We propose a generic categorical framework for learning unknown formal languages of various types (e.g. finite or infinite words, weighted and nominal languages). Our approach is parametric in a monad T that represents the given type of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Henning Urbat , Lutz Schröder

We study expression learning problems with syntactic restrictions and introduce the class of finite-aspect checkable languages to characterize symbolic languages that admit decidable learning. The semantics of such languages can be defined…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Paul Krogmeier , P. Madhusudan

Valence automata are a generalization of various models of automata with storage. Here, each edge carries, in addition to an input word, an element of a monoid. A computation is considered valid if multiplying the monoid elements on the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-19 P. Buckheister , Georg Zetzsche

This paper contains results related to synthesis and presentation of abstract automata by fragments of behaviour and investigates the structure of the classes of finite connected initial output-less automata specified by systems of defining…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Oleksiy Kurganskyy , Alexandra Maximova

Topological collections allow to consider uniformly many data structures in programming languages and are handled by functions defined by pattern matching called transformations. We present two type systems for languages with topological…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-12-25 Julien Cohen

We provide a pipeline for generating syntax diagrams (also called railroad diagrams) from context free grammars. Syntax diagrams are a graphical representation of a context free language, which we formalize abstractly as a set of mutually…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Michael J. Bannister , David A. Brown , David Eppstein

Every language recognized by a non-deterministic finite automaton can be recognized by a deterministic automaton, at the cost of a potential increase of the number of states, which in the worst case can go from $n$ states to $2^n$ states.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Arnaud Carayol , Philippe Duchon , Florent Koechlin , Cyril Nicaud

In this note, we generalize the results of arXiv:0901.2703v1 We show that all one-way quantum finite automaton (QFA) models that are at least as general as Kondacs-Watrous QFA's are equivalent in power to classical probabilistic finite…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-09-20 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz , A. C. Cem Say

Finite automata were used to determine multiple addresses in number systems and to find topological properties of self-affine tiles and finite type fractals. We join these two lines of research by axiomatically defining automata which…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Christoph Bandt

We present a Myhill-Nerode style characterization for languages recognized by one-clock deterministic timed automata (1-DTA). Although there is only one clock, distinct automata may reset it differently along the same word. This adds a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Kyveli Doveri , Pierre Ganty , B. Srivathsan

In this work we use a framework of finite-state automata constructions based on equivalences over words to provide new insights on the relation between well-known methods for computing the minimal deterministic automaton of a language.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Pierre Ganty , Elena Gutiérrez , Pedro Valero

Two languages are "finitely different" if their symmetric difference is finite. We consider the DFAs of finitely different regular languages and find major structural similarities. We proceed to consider the smallest DFAs that recognize a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andrew Badr , Ian Shipman

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

We show that every regular language defines a unique nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA), which we call "\'atomaton", whose states are the "atoms" of the language, that is, non-empty intersections of complemented or uncomplemented left…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-20 Janusz Brzozowski , Hellis Tamm

A language L over a finite alphabet is growth-sensitive (or entropy sensitive) if forbidding any set of subwords F yields a sub-language L^F whose exponential growth rate (entropy) is smaller than that of L. Let (X, E, l) be an infinite,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-14 Wilfried Huss , Ecaterina Sava , Wolfgang Woess

Making a linguistic theory is like making a programming language: one typically devises a type system to delineate the acceptable utterances and a denotational semantics to explain observations on their behavior. Via this connection, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Chung-chieh Shan