On DR Tree Automata, Unary Algebras and Syntactic Path Monoids
Author(s) -
Magnus Steinby
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
acta cybernetica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.143
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 2676-993X
pISSN - 0324-721X
DOI - 10.14232/actacyb.23.1.2017.10
Subject(s) - unary operation , tree (set theory) , mathematics , path (computing) , variety (cybernetics) , automaton , regular language , discrete mathematics , combinatorics , computer science , theoretical computer science , programming language , statistics
We consider deterministic root-to-frontier (DR) tree recognizers and the tree languages recognized by them from an algebraic point of view. We make use,of a correspondence between DR algebras and unary algebras shown by Z. Esik (1986). We also study a question raised by F. Gecseg (2007) that concerns the definability of families of DR-recognizable tree languages by syntactic path monoids. We show how the families of DR-recognizable tree languages path-definable by a variety of finite monoids (or semigroups) can be derived from varieties of string languages. In particular, the three path definable families of Gecseg and B. Imreh (2002, 2004) are obtained this way.
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