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Parikh One-Counter Automata

Authors Michaël Cadilhac , Arka Ghosh, Guillermo A. Pérez , Ritam Raha

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Michaël Cadilhac
  • DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA
Arka Ghosh
  • University of Warsaw, Poland
Guillermo A. Pérez
  • University of Antwerp - Flanders Make, Belgium
Ritam Raha
  • University of Antwerp - Flanders Make, Belgium
  • LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France

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Belgian FWO "SAILor" project (G030020N) & NCN grant 2019/35/B/ST6/02322.

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Michaël Cadilhac, Arka Ghosh, Guillermo A. Pérez, and Ritam Raha. Parikh One-Counter Automata. In 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 272, pp. 30:1-30:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.30

Abstract

Counting abilities in finite automata are traditionally provided by two orthogonal extensions: adding a single counter that can be tested for zeroness at any point, or adding ℤ-valued counters that are tested for equality only at the end of runs. In this paper, finite automata extended with both types of counters are introduced. They are called Parikh One-Counter Automata (POCA): the "Parikh" part referring to the evaluation of counters at the end of runs, and the "One-Counter" part to the single counter that can be tested during runs.
Their expressiveness, in the deterministic and nondeterministic variants, is investigated; it is shown in particular that there are deterministic POCA languages that cannot be expressed without nondeterminism in the original models. The natural decision problems are also studied; strikingly, most of them are no harder than in the original models. A parametric version of nonemptiness is also considered.

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  • Theory of computation → Grammars and context-free languages
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  • Parikh automata
  • Context-free languages
  • One-counter automata

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