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Research on the distribution of prime numbers has revealed a dual character: deterministic in definition yet exhibiting statistical behavior reminiscent of random processes. In this paper we show that it is possible to use an image-focused…

Partial derivatives of regular expressions, introduced by Antimirov, define an elegant algorithm for generating equivalent non-deterministic finite automata (NFA) with a limited number of states. Here we focus on runtime verification (RV)…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Davide Ancona , Angelo Ferrando

Finite-state tree automata are a well studied formalism for representing term languages. This paper studies the problem of determining the regularity of the set of instances of a finite set of terms with variables, where each variable is…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2009-11-20 Omer Giménez , Guillem Godoy , Sebastian Maneth

We prove several decidability and undecidability results for the satisfiability and validity problems for languages that can express solutions to word equations with length constraints. The atomic formulas over this language are equality…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Vijay Ganesh , Mia Minnes , Armando Solar-Lezama , Martin Rinard

With the broader use of language models (LMs) comes the need to estimate their ability to respond reliably to prompts (e.g., are generated responses likely to be correct?). Uncertainty quantification tools (notions of confidence and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Evgenia Ilia , Wilker Aziz

The problem if a given configuration of a pushdown automaton (PDA) is bisimilar with some (unspecified) finite-state process is shown to be decidable. The decidability is proven in the framework of first-order grammars, which are given by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Petr Jancar

Automata over infinite words, also known as omega-automata, play a key role in the verification and synthesis of reactive systems. The spectrum of omega-automata is defined by two characteristics: the acceptance condition (e.g. B\"uchi or…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rayna Dimitrova , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hazem Torfah

In this paper we revisit the classical regular expression matching problem, namely, given a regular expression $R$ and a string $Q$, decide if $Q$ matches one of the strings specified by $R$. Let $m$ and $n$ be the length of $R$ and $Q$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Philip Bille

Automata-logic connections are pillars of the theory of regular languages. Such connections are harder to obtain for transducers, but important results have been obtained recently for word-to-word transformations, showing that the three…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Luc Dartois , Emmanuel Filiot , Pierre-Alain Reynier , Jean-Marc Talbot

The main aim of the paper is to give a short self-contained proof of the decidability of language equivalence for deterministic pushdown automata, which is the famous problem solved by G. Senizergues, for which C. Stirling has derived a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-10 Petr Jancar

In this paper, we investigate the problem of synthesizing computable functions of infinite words over an infinite alphabet (data $\omega$-words). The notion of computability is defined through Turing machines with infinite inputs which can…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Léo Exibard , Emmanuel Filiot , Nathan Lhote , Pierre-Alain Reynier

We prove an explicit error term for the $\psi(x,\chi)$ function assuming the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis. Using this estimate, we prove a conditional explicit bound for the number of primes in arithmetic progressions.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Anne-Maria Ernvall-Hytönen , Neea Palojärvi

Monadic decomposibility --- the ability to determine whether a formula in a given logical theory can be decomposed into a boolean combination of monadic formulas --- is a powerful tool for devising a decision procedure for a given logical…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Pablo Barcelo , Chih-Duo Hong , Xuan-Bach Le , Anthony W. Lin , Reino Niskanen

This paper enriches preexisting satisfiability tests for unquantified languages, which in turn augment a fragment of Tarski's elementary algebra with unary real functions possessing a continuous first derivative. Two sorts of individual…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-04 G. Buriola , D. Cantone , G. Cincotti , E. G. Omodeo , G. T. Spartà

"Quantitative languages are extension of boolean languages that assign to each word a real number. Mean-payoff automata are finite automata with numerical weights on transitions that assign to each infinite path the long-run average of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-05-20 Yaron Velner

The languages accepted by finite automata are precisely the languages denoted by regular expressions. In contrast, finite automata may exhibit behaviours that cannot be described by regular expressions up to bisimilarity. In this paper, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Jos C. M. Baeten , Bas Luttik , Tim Muller , Paul van Tilburg

Probabilistic omega-automata are variants of nondeterministic automata for infinite words where all choices are resolved by probabilistic distributions. Acceptance of an infinite input word can be defined in different ways: by requiring…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-29 Christel Baier , Nathalie Bertrand , Marcus Größer

Simulation plays a central role in scientific discovery. In many applications, the bottleneck is no longer running a simulator; it is choosing among large families of plausible simulators, each corresponding to different forward…

The rise of parallel computing hardware has made it increasingly important to understand which nonlinear state space models can be efficiently parallelized. Recent advances like DEER (arXiv:2309.12252) and DeepPCR (arXiv:2309.16318) recast…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Xavier Gonzalez , Leo Kozachkov , David M. Zoltowski , Kenneth L. Clarkson , Scott W. Linderman

We present the first mechanized, succinct, practical, complete, and proven-faithful semantics for a modern regular expression language with backtracking semantics. We ensure its faithfulness by proving it equivalent to a preexisting…

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