Windable Heads & Recognizing NL with Constant Randomness
Abstract
Every language in NL has a -head two-way nondeterministic finite automaton (2nfa()) recognizing it. It is known how to build a constant-space verifier algorithm from a 2nfa() for the same language with constant-randomness, but with error probability that can not be reduced further by repetition. We have defined the unpleasant characteristic of the heads that causes the high error as the property of being "windable". With a tweak on the previous verification algorithm, the error is improved to , where is the number of windable heads. Using this new algorithm, a subset of languages in NL that have a 2nfa() recognizer with can be verified with arbitrarily reducible error using constant space and randomness.
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@article{arxiv.1912.01382,
title = {Windable Heads & Recognizing NL with Constant Randomness},
author = {M. Utkan Gezer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.01382},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
12 pages, accepted and to be published in Language and Automata Theory and Applications - LATA 2020 Alberto Leporati, Carlos Mart\'in-Vide, Dana Shapira, Claudio Zandron (Eds.)