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Regular Separability of Parikh Automata

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2016-12-20 v1

Abstract

We investigate a subclass of languages recognized by vector addition systems, namely languages of nondeterministic Parikh automata. While the regularity problem (is the language of a given automaton regular?) is undecidable for this model, we show surprising decidability of the regular separability problem: given two Parikh automata, is there a regular language that contains one of them and is disjoint from the other?

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@article{arxiv.1612.06233,
  title  = {Regular Separability of Parikh Automata},
  author = {Lorenzo Clemente and Wojciech Czerwiński and Sławomir Lasota and Charles Paperman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.06233},
  year   = {2016}
}
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