Multipass automata and group word problems

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Hauptverfasser: Ceccherini-Silberstein, Tullio, Coornaert, Michel, Fiorenzi, Francesca, Schupp, Paul E., Touikan, Nicholas W. M.
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author Ceccherini-Silberstein, Tullio
Coornaert, Michel
Fiorenzi, Francesca
Schupp, Paul E.
Touikan, Nicholas W. M.
author_facet Ceccherini-Silberstein, Tullio
Coornaert, Michel
Fiorenzi, Francesca
Schupp, Paul E.
Touikan, Nicholas W. M.
contents We introduce the notion of multipass automata as a generalization of pushdown automata and study the classes of languages accepted by such machines. The class of languages accepted by deterministic multipass automata is exactly the Boolean closure of the class of deterministic context-free languages while the class of languages accepted by nondeterministic multipass automata is exactly the class of poly-context-free languages, that is, languages which are the intersection of finitely many context-free languages. We illustrate the use of these automata by studying groups whose word problems are in the above classes.
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spellingShingle Multipass automata and group word problems
Ceccherini-Silberstein, Tullio
Coornaert, Michel
Fiorenzi, Francesca
Schupp, Paul E.
Touikan, Nicholas W. M.
Group Theory
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
03B25, 05C05, 37B10, 37B15, 68Q70, 68Q80
We introduce the notion of multipass automata as a generalization of pushdown automata and study the classes of languages accepted by such machines. The class of languages accepted by deterministic multipass automata is exactly the Boolean closure of the class of deterministic context-free languages while the class of languages accepted by nondeterministic multipass automata is exactly the class of poly-context-free languages, that is, languages which are the intersection of finitely many context-free languages. We illustrate the use of these automata by studying groups whose word problems are in the above classes.
title Multipass automata and group word problems
topic Group Theory
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
03B25, 05C05, 37B10, 37B15, 68Q70, 68Q80
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7442