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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.30
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-185645
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2023/18564/
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Cadilhac, Michaël ; Ghosh, Arka ; Pérez, Guillermo A. ; Raha, Ritam

Parikh One-Counter Automata

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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.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{cadilhac_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.30,
  author =	{Cadilhac, Micha\"{e}l and Ghosh, Arka and P\'{e}rez, Guillermo A. and Raha, Ritam},
  title =	{{Parikh One-Counter Automata}},
  booktitle =	{48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2023)},
  pages =	{30:1--30:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-292-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{272},
  editor =	{Leroux, J\'{e}r\^{o}me and Lombardy, Sylvain and Peleg, David},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/18564},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-185645},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.30},
  annote =	{Keywords: Parikh automata, Context-free languages, One-counter automata}
}

Keywords: Parikh automata, Context-free languages, One-counter automata
Collection: 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2023)
Issue Date: 2023
Date of publication: 21.08.2023

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