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Boolean Algebras from Trace Automata

Author Alexandre Mansard

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  • Theory of computation → Formal languages and automata theory
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  • Boolean algebras
  • traces
  • automata
  • synchronization
  • pushdown automata
  • vector addition systems

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Abstract

We consider trace automata. Their vertices are Mazurkiewicz traces and they accept finite words. Considering the length of a trace as the length of its Foata normal form, we define the operations of level-length synchronization and of superposition of trace automata. We show that if a family F of trace automata is closed under these operations, then for any deterministic automaton H in F, the word languages accepted by the deterministic automata of F that are length-reducible to H form a Boolean algebra. We show that the family of trace suffix automata with level-regular contexts and the subfamily of vector addition systems satisfy these closure properties. In particular, this yields various Boolean algebras of word languages accepted by deterministic vector addition systems.

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Alexandre Mansard. Boolean Algebras from Trace Automata. In 39th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 150, pp. 48:1-48:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2019.48

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Alexandre Mansard
  • LIM, University of La Réunion, France

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