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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2009.2308
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-23081
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Bojanczyk, Mikolaj ; Torunczyk, Szymon

Deterministic Automata and Extensions of Weak MSO

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Abstract

We introduce a new class of automata on infinite words, called
min-automata. We prove that min-automata have the same expressive
power as weak monadic second-order logic (weak MSO) extended with a new
quantifier, the recurrence quantifier. These results are dual to a
framework presented in \cite{max-automata}, where max-automata were proved equivalent
to weak MSO extended with an unbounding
quantifier. We also present a general framework, which tries to
explain which types of automata on infinite words correspond to
extensions of weak MSO. As another example for the usefulness framework,
apart from min- and max-automata, we define an extension of weak MSO
with a quantifier that talks about ultimately periodic sets.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{bojanczyk_et_al:LIPIcs:2009:2308,
  author =	{Mikolaj Bojanczyk and Szymon Torunczyk},
  title =	{{Deterministic Automata and Extensions of Weak MSO}},
  booktitle =	{IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science},
  pages =	{73--84},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-13-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2009},
  volume =	{4},
  editor =	{Ravi Kannan and K. Narayan Kumar},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2009/2308},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-23081},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2009.2308},
  annote =	{Keywords: Deterministic automata, Weak MSO, min-automata, max-automata, BS-automata}
}

Keywords: Deterministic automata, Weak MSO, min-automata, max-automata, BS-automata
Collection: IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
Issue Date: 2009
Date of publication: 14.12.2009

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