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Parikh's theorem for infinite alphabets

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2021-04-27 v1 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

We investigate commutative images of languages recognised by register automata and grammars. Semi-linear and rational sets can be naturally extended to this setting by allowing for orbit-finite unions instead of only finite ones. We prove that commutative images of languages of one-register automata are not always semi-linear, but they are always rational. We also lift the latter result to grammars: commutative images of one-register context-free languages are rational, and in consequence commutatively equivalent to register automata. We conjecture analogous results for automata and grammars with arbitrarily many registers.

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@article{arxiv.2104.12018,
  title  = {Parikh's theorem for infinite alphabets},
  author = {Piotr Hofman and Marta Juzepczuk and Sławomir Lasota and Mohnish Pattathurajan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.12018},
  year   = {2021}
}
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