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Exact Affine Counter Automata

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2017-08-23 v3 Computational Complexity Quantum Physics

Abstract

We introduce an affine generalization of counter automata, and analyze their ability as well as affine finite automata. Our contributions are as follows. We show that there is a language that can be recognized by exact realtime affine counter automata but by neither 1-way deterministic pushdown automata nor realtime deterministic k-counter automata. We also show that a certain promise problem, which is conjectured not to be solved by two-way quantum finite automata in polynomial time, can be solved by Las Vegas affine finite automata. Lastly, we show that how a counter helps for affine finite automata by showing that the language MANYTWINS, which is conjectured not to be recognized by affine, quantum or classical finite state models in polynomial time, can be recognized by affine counter automata with one-sided bounded-error in realtime.

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@article{arxiv.1703.04281,
  title  = {Exact Affine Counter Automata},
  author = {Masaki Nakanishi and Kamil Khadiev and Krišjānis Prūsis and Jevgēnijs Vihrovs and Abuzer Yakaryılmaz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.04281},
  year   = {2017}
}

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In Proceedings AFL 2017, arXiv:1708.06226

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