On the Problem of Computing the Probability of Regular Sets of Trees

Authors Henryk Michalewski, Matteo Mio



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Henryk Michalewski
Matteo Mio

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Henryk Michalewski and Matteo Mio. On the Problem of Computing the Probability of Regular Sets of Trees. In 35th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 45, pp. 489-502, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2015.489

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We consider the problem of computing the probability of regular languages of infinite trees with respect to the natural coin-flipping measure. We propose an algorithm which computes the probability of languages recognizable by game automata. In particular this algorithm is applicable to all deterministic automata. We then use the algorithm to prove through examples three properties of measure: (1) there exist regular sets having irrational probability, (2) there exist comeager regular sets having probability 0 and (3) the probability of game languages W_{i,k}, from automata theory, is 0 if k is odd and is 1 otherwise.
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  • regular languages of trees
  • probability
  • meta-parity games

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