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We study the portraits of isometries of rooted trees - the labelling of the tree, at each vertex, by the permutation of its descendants - in terms of languages. We characterize regularly branched self-similar groups in terms of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Laurent Bartholdi , Marialaura Noce

Motivated by an application in computational topology, we consider a novel variant of the problem of efficiently maintaining dynamic rooted trees. This variant requires merging two paths in a single operation. In contrast to the standard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-11-13 Loukas Georgiadis , Haim Kaplan , Nira Shafrir , Robert E. Tarjan , Renato F. Werneck

We study the membership problem to context-free languages L (CFLs) on probabilistic words, that specify for each position a probability distribution on the letters (assuming independence across positions). Our task is to compute, given a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Antoine Amarilli , Mikaël Monet , Paul Raphaël , Sylvain Salvati

An optimal binary search tree for an access sequence on elements is a static tree that minimizes the total search cost. Constructing perfectly optimal binary search trees is expensive so the most efficient algorithms construct almost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Mordecai Golin , John Iacono , Stefan Langerman , J. Ian Munro , Yakov Nekrich

The class of tree-adjoining languages can be characterized by various two-level formalisms, consisting of a context-free grammar (CFG) or pushdown automaton (PDA) controlling another CFG or PDA. These four formalisms are equivalent to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Alexandra Butoi , Tim Vieira , Ryan Cotterell , David Chiang

In this paper, we consider the satisfiability problem for string logic with equations, regular membership and Presburger constraints over length functions. The difficulty comes from multiple occurrences of string variables making…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Quang Loc Le

We investigate two problems for a class C of regular word languages. The C-membership problem asks for an algorithm to decide whether an input language belongs to C. The C-separation problem asks for an algorithm that, given as input two…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Thomas Place , Marc Zeitoun

Dynamic tree data structures maintain a forest while supporting insertion and deletion of edges and a broad set of queries in $O(\log n)$ time per operation. Such data structures are at the core of many modern algorithms. Recent work has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Humza Ikram , Andrew Brady , Daniel Anderson , Guy Blelloch

A compressed self-index stores a string in compressed form while supporting locate queries without decompression. For highly repetitive strings (arising in web crawls, versioned documents, and genomic collections), static self-indexes can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Takaaki Nishimoto , Yasuo Tabei

We investigate the topological complexity of non Borel recognizable tree languages with regard to the difference hierarchy of analytic sets. We show that, for each integer $n \geq 1$, there is a $D_{\omega^n}({\bf \Sigma}^1_1)$-complete…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-11-05 Olivier Finkel , Pierre Simonnet

We consider symbolic tree automata (sta) and symbolic tree transducers (stt). We characterize s-recognizable tree languages (which are the tree languages recognizable by sta) in terms of (classical) recognizable tree languages and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-28 Zoltán Fülöp , Heiko Vogler

We introduce the task of out-of-order membership to a formal language L, where the letters of a word w are revealed one by one in an adversarial order. The length |w| is known in advance, but the content of w is streamed as pairs (i, w[i]),…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Antoine Amarilli , Sebastien Labbe , Charles Paperman

We study the complexity of the following problems in the streaming model. Membership testing for \DLIN We show that every language in \DLIN\ can be recognised by a randomized one-pass $O(\log n)$ space algorithm with inverse polynomial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-06 Ajesh Babu , Nutan Limaye , Jaikumar Radhakrishnan , Girish Varma

We consider algorithms and lower bounds for various problems over forest languages; as input models we allow forest algebras, deterministic forest automata and nondeterministic forest automata. For the equivalence problem, we give an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Marcial Gaißert , Manfred Kufleitner

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

We study deterministic tree-walking-storage automata, which are finite-state devices equipped with a tree-like storage. These automata are generalized stack automata, where the linear stack storage is replaced by a non-linear tree-like…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Martin Kutrib , Uwe Meyer

The edit distance between two rooted ordered trees with $n$ nodes labeled from an alphabet~$\Sigma$ is the minimum cost of transforming one tree into the other by a sequence of elementary operations consisting of deleting and relabeling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Karl Bringmann , Paweł Gawrychowski , Shay Mozes , Oren Weimann

A regular tree language L is locally testable if membership of a tree in L depends only on the presence or absence of some fix set of neighborhoods in the tree. In this paper we show that it is decidable whether a regular tree language is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Thomas Place , Luc Segoufin

It is widely assumed that $O(m+\lg \sigma)$ is the best one can do for finding a pattern of length $m$ in a compacted trie storing strings over an alphabet of size $\sigma$, if one insists on linear-size data structures and deterministic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-15 Johannes Fischer , Pawel Gawrychowski

Spanning trees of low average stretch on the non-tree edges, as introduced by Alon et al. [SICOMP 1995], are a natural graph-theoretic object. In recent years, they have found significant applications in solvers for symmetric diagonally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Sebastian Forster , Gramoz Goranci