Asymptotic enumeration of Minimal Automata

Authors Frédérique Bassino, Julien David, Andrea Sportiello



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Frédérique Bassino
Julien David
Andrea Sportiello

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Frédérique Bassino, Julien David, and Andrea Sportiello. Asymptotic enumeration of Minimal Automata. In 29th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2012). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 14, pp. 88-99, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2012)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2012.88

Abstract

We determine the asymptotic proportion of minimal automata, within n-state accessible deterministic complete automata over a k-letter alphabet, with the uniform distribution over the possible transition structures, and a binomial distribution over terminal states, with arbitrary parameter b. It turns out that a fraction ~ 1-C(k,b) n^{-k+2} of automata is minimal, with C(k,b) a function, explicitly determined, involving the solution of a transcendental equation.
Keywords
  • minimal automata
  • regular languages
  • enumeration of random structures

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