English

Postselecting probabilistic finite state recognizers and verifiers

Computational Complexity 2018-07-16 v1 Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the computational and verification power of bounded-error postselecting realtime probabilistic finite state automata (PostPFAs). We show that PostPFAs using rational-valued transitions can do different variants of equality checks and they can verify some nonregular unary languages. Then, we allow them to use real-valued transitions (magic-coins) and show that they can recognize uncountably many binary languages by help of a counter and verify uncountably many unary languages by help of a prover. We also present some corollaries on probabilistic counter automata.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1807.05169,
  title  = {Postselecting probabilistic finite state recognizers and verifiers},
  author = {Maksims Dimitrijevs and Abuzer Yakaryılmaz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.05169},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

18 pages. Accepted to NCMA 2018

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