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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2025.48

Subshifts Defined by Nondeterministic and Alternating Plane-Walking Automata

Authors: Benjamin Hellouin de Menibus and Pacôme Perrotin

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 327, 42nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2025)

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Plane-walking automata were introduced by Salo & Törma to recognise languages of two-dimensional infinite words (subshifts), the counterpart of 4-way finite automata for two-dimensional finite words. We extend the model to allow for nondeterminism and alternation of quantifiers. We prove that the recognised subshifts form a strict subclass of sofic subshifts, and that the classes corresponding to existential and universal nondeterminism are incomparable and both larger that the deterministic class. We define a hierarchy of subshifts recognised by plane-walking automata with alternating quantifiers, which we conjecture to be strict.

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Benjamin Hellouin de Menibus and Pacôme Perrotin. Subshifts Defined by Nondeterministic and Alternating Plane-Walking Automata. In 42nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 327, pp. 48:1-48:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{hellouindemenibus_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2025.48,
  author =	{Hellouin de Menibus, Benjamin and Perrotin, Pac\^{o}me},
  title =	{{Subshifts Defined by Nondeterministic and Alternating Plane-Walking Automata}},
  booktitle =	{42nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2025)},
  pages =	{48:1--48:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-365-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{327},
  editor =	{Beyersdorff, Olaf and Pilipczuk, Micha{\l} and Pimentel, Elaine and Thắng, Nguy\~{ê}n Kim},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2025.48},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-228540},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2025.48},
  annote =	{Keywords: Formal languages, Finite automata, Subshifts, Symbolic dynamics, Tilings}
}

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