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Monoid automata for displacement context-free languages

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2014-03-25 v1

Abstract

In 2007 Kambites presented an algebraic interpretation of Chomsky-Schutzenberger theorem for context-free languages. We give an interpretation of the corresponding theorem for the class of displacement context-free languages which are equivalent to well-nested multiple context-free languages. We also obtain a characterization of k-displacement context-free languages in terms of monoid automata and show how such automata can be simulated on two stacks. We introduce the simultaneous two-stack automata and compare different variants of its definition. All the definitions considered are shown to be equivalent basing on the geometric interpretation of memory operations of these automata.

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@article{arxiv.1403.6060,
  title  = {Monoid automata for displacement context-free languages},
  author = {Alexey Sorokin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.6060},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Revised version for ESSLLI Student Session 2013 selected papers

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