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Main Authors: Rowland, Eric, Stipulanti, Manon, Yassawi, Reem
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10977
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author Rowland, Eric
Stipulanti, Manon
Yassawi, Reem
author_facet Rowland, Eric
Stipulanti, Manon
Yassawi, Reem
contents Christol's theorem states that a power series with coefficients in a finite field is algebraic if and only if its coefficient sequence is automatic. A natural question is how the size of a polynomial describing such a sequence relates to the size of an automaton describing the same sequence. Bridy used tools from algebraic geometry to bound the size of the minimal automaton for a sequence, given its minimal polynomial. We produce a new proof of Bridy's bound by embedding algebraic sequences as diagonals of rational functions.
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spellingShingle An elementary proof of Bridy's theorem
Rowland, Eric
Stipulanti, Manon
Yassawi, Reem
Number Theory
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
Symbolic Computation
11B85, 13F25, 14H05
Christol's theorem states that a power series with coefficients in a finite field is algebraic if and only if its coefficient sequence is automatic. A natural question is how the size of a polynomial describing such a sequence relates to the size of an automaton describing the same sequence. Bridy used tools from algebraic geometry to bound the size of the minimal automaton for a sequence, given its minimal polynomial. We produce a new proof of Bridy's bound by embedding algebraic sequences as diagonals of rational functions.
title An elementary proof of Bridy's theorem
topic Number Theory
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
Symbolic Computation
11B85, 13F25, 14H05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10977