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This paper concerns $\mu$-limit sets of cellular automata: sets of configurations made of words whose probability to appear does not vanish with time, starting from an initial $\mu$-random configuration. More precisely, we investigate the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Laurent Boyer , Martin Delacourt , Victor Poupet , Mathieu Sablik , Guillaume Theyssier

We provide an exact estimate on the maximal subword complexity for quasiperiodic infinite words. To this end we give a representation of the set of finite and of infinite words having a certain quasiperiod q via a finite language derived…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-11 Ronny Polley , Ludwig Staiger

In this work we construct an automaton for the commutative closure of a given regular group language. The number of states of the resulting automaton is bounded by the number of states of the original automaton, raised to the power of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Stefan Hoffmann

This paper studies the complexity of operations on finite automata and the complexity of their decision problems when the alphabet is unary. Let $n$ denote the maximum of the number of states of the input finite automata considered in the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Wojciech Czerwiński , Maciej Dębski , Tomasz Gogasz , Gordon Hoi , Sanjay Jain , Michał Skrzypczak , Frank Stephan , Christopher Tan

We define the algorithmic complexity of a quantum state relative to a given precision parameter, and give upper bounds for various examples of states. We also establish a connection between the entanglement of a quantum state and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Caterina Mora , Hans Briegel

We give a forbidden pattern characterization for the class of generalized definite languages, show that the corresponding problem is NL-complete and can be solved in quadratic time. We also show that their syntactic complexity coincides…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Szabolcs Ivan , Judit Nagy-Gyorgy

The syntactic complexity of a regular language is the cardinality of its syntactic semigroup. The syntactic complexity of a subclass of the class of regular languages is the maximal syntactic complexity of languages in that class, taken as…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Janusz Brzozowski , Baiyu Li

We quantify the linguistic complexity of different languages' morphological systems. We verify that there is an empirical trade-off between paradigm size and irregularity: a language's inflectional paradigms may be either large in size or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Ryan Cotterell , Christo Kirov , Mans Hulden , Jason Eisner

We study formal languages which are capable of fully expressing quantitative probabilistic reasoning and do-calculus reasoning for causal effects, from a computational complexity perspective. We focus on satisfiability problems whose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Benito van der Zander , Markus Bläser , Maciej Liśkiewicz

This paper investigates the state complexities of subword-closed and superword-closed languages, comparing them to regular languages. We focus on the square root operator and the substitution operator. We establish an exponential lower…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jérôme Guyot

We investigate the complexity of the separation problem associated to classes of regular languages. For a class C, C-separation takes two regular languages as input and asks whether there exists a third language in C which includes the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Thomas Place , Marc Zeitoun

We study various complexity properties of suffix-free regular languages. The quotient complexity of a regular language $L$ is the number of left quotients of $L$; this is the same as the state complexity of $L$. A regular language $L'$ is a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Janusz Brzozowski , Marek Szykuła

In this paper, we consider block languages, namely sets of words having the same length, and we propose a new representation for these languages. In particular, given an alphabet of size $k$ and a length $\ell$, a block language can be…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Guilherme Duarte , Nelma Moreira , Luca Prigioniero , Rogério Reis

The mapping of lexical meanings to wordforms is a major feature of natural languages. While usage pressures might assign short words to frequent meanings (Zipf's law of abbreviation), the need for a productive and open-ended vocabulary,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Tiago Pimentel , Irene Nikkarinen , Kyle Mahowald , Ryan Cotterell , Damián Blasi

We investigate the state complexity of the upward and downward closure and interior operations on commutative regular languages. Then, we systematically study the state complexity of these operations and of the shuffle operation on…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Stefan Hoffmann

We consider finite trees with edges labeled by letters on a finite alphabet $\varSigma$. Each pair of nodes defines a unique labeled path whose trace is a word of the free monoid $\varSigma^*$. The set of all such words defines the language…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Srečko Brlek , Nadia Lafrenière , Xavier Provençal

Finite valued constraint satisfaction problems are a formalism for describing many natural optimization problems, where constraints on the values that variables can take come with rational weights and the aim is to find an assignment of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Anuj Dawar , Pengming Wang

HyperQPTL and HyperQPTL$^+$ are expressive specification languages for hyperproperties, properties that relate multiple executions of a system. Tight complexity bounds are known for HyperQPTL finite-state satisfiability and model-checking.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Gaëtan Regaud , Martin Zimmermann

We study parameterized Constraint Satisfaction Problem for infinite constraint languages. The parameters that we study are weight of the satisfying assignment, number of constraints, maximum number of occurrences of a variable in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Ruhollah Majdoddin

We examine deterministic and nondeterministic state complexities of regular operations on prefix-free languages. We strengthen several results by providing witness languages over smaller alphabets, usually as small as possible. We next…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-11 Galina Jirásková , Monika Krausová