English

Exploring the Topological Entropy of Formal Languages

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2019-04-25 v2 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We introduce the notions of topological entropy of a formal language and of a topological automaton. We show that the entropy function is surjective and bound the entropy of languages accepted by deterministic {\epsilon}-free push-down automata with an arbitrary amount of stacks.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1801.07321,
  title  = {Exploring the Topological Entropy of Formal Languages},
  author = {Florian Starke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.07321},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

22 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-22T23:52:31.116Z