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We realize constant-space quantum computation by measure-many two-way quantum finite automata and evaluate their language recognition power by analyzing patterns of their exotic behaviors and by exploring their structural properties. In…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Tomoyuki Yamakami

The class of languages having polynomial-time classical or quantum interactive proof systems ($\mathsf{IP}$ or $\mathsf{QIP}$, respectively) is identical to $\mathsf{PSPACE}$. We show that $\mathsf{PSPACE}$ (and so $\mathsf{QIP}$) is subset…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

1-way quantum finite state automata are reversible in nature, which greatly reduces its accepting property. In fact, the set of languages accepted by 1-way quantum finite automata is a proper subset of regular languages. We introduce 2-tape…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Debayan Ganguly , Kumar Sankar Ray

Different classes of automata on infinite words have different expressive power. Deciding whether a given language $L \subseteq \Sigma^\omega$ can be expressed by an automaton of a desired class can be reduced to deciding a game between…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Orna Kupferman , Salomon Sickert

Condon and Lipton (FOCS 1989) showed that the class of languages having a space-bounded interactive proof system (IPS) is a proper subset of decidable languages, where the verifier is a probabilistic Turing machine. In this paper, we show…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-07-18 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

{\it Two-way finite automata with quantum and classical states} (2QCFA) were introduced by Ambainis and Watrous, and it was shown that 2QCFA have superiority over {\it two-way probabilistic finite automata} (2PFA) for recognizing some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-14 Shenggen Zheng , Daowen Qiu , Lvzhou Li

We introduce a certain restriction of weighted automata over the rationals, called image-binary automata. We show that such automata accept the regular languages, can be exponentially more succinct than corresponding NFAs, and allow for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Stefan Kiefer , Cas Widdershoven

The present paper introduces and studies an alternative concept of two-way finite automata called input-erasing two-way finite automata. Like the original model, these new automata can also move the reading head freely left or right on the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Alexander Meduna , Dominik Nejedlý , Zbyněk Křivka

A two-way deterministic finite state automaton with one counter (2D1CA) is a fundamental computational model that has been examined in many different aspects since sixties, but we know little about its power in the case of unary languages.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Marzio De Biasi , Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

This paper describes the formal verification of two Turing machines using the program verifier Dafny. Both machines are deciders, so we prove total correctness. They are typical first examples of Turing machines used in any course of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Edgar F. A. Lederer

We present three protocols for verifying all languages: (i) For any unary (binary) language, there is a log-space (linear-space) interactive proof system (IPS); (ii) for any language, there is a constant-space weak-IPS (the non-members may…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Maksims Dimitrijevs , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

In the field of computational logic, two classes of finite automata are considered fundamental: deterministic and nondeterministic automata (DFAs and NFAs). In a more fine-grained approach three natural intermediate classes were introduced,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Karolina Drabik , Anita Dürr , Fabian Frei , Filip Mazowiecki , Karol Węgrzycki

We develop a theory of vector spaces spanned by orbit-finite sets. Using this theory, we give a decision procedure for equivalence of weighted register automata, which are the common generalization of weighted automata and register automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Joanna Fijalkow , Bartek Klin , Joshua Moerman

We investigate the computational power of affine automata (AfAs) introduced in [4]. In particular, we present a simpler proof for how to change the cutpoint for any affine language and a method how to reduce error in bounded error case.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Mika Hirvensalo , Etienne Moutot , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

This paper presents efficient algorithms for testing the finite, polynomial, and exponential ambiguity of finite automata with $\epsilon$-transitions. It gives an algorithm for testing the exponential ambiguity of an automaton $A$ in time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-02-25 Cyril Allauzen , Mehryar Mohri , Ashish Rastogi

Quantum finite automata have been studied intensively since their introduction in late 1990s as a natural model of a quantum computer with finite-dimensional quantum memory space. This paper seeks their direct application to interactive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-26 Harumichi Nishimura , Tomoyuki Yamakami

We introduce a quantum-like classical computational model, called affine computation, as a generalization of probabilistic computation. After giving the basics of affine computation, we define affine finite automata (AfA) and compare it…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Alejandro Díaz-Caro , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

In this article we consider two-way two-tape (alternating) automata accepting pairs of words and we study some closure properties of this model. Our main result is that such alternating automata are not closed under complementation for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Olivier Carton , Léo Exibard , Olivier Serre

Some of the most interesting and important results concerning quantum finite automata are those showing that they can recognize certain languages with (much) less resources than corresponding classical finite automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Shenggen Zheng , Jozef Gruska , Daowen Qiu

We consider temporal logic verification of (possibly nonlinear) dynamical systems evolving over continuous state spaces. Our approach combines automata-based verification and the use of so-called barrier certificates. Automata-based…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-17 Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn , Ufuk Topcu , Andrew Lamperski