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Some Properties of Deterministic Restricted One-Counter Automata

Ken HIGUCHI, Mitsuo WAKATSUKI, Etsuji TOMITA

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A deterministic pushdown automaton (dpda) having just one stack symbol is called a deterministic restricted one-counter automaton (droca). A deterministic one-counter automaton (doca) is a dpda having only one stack symbol, with the exception of a bottom-of-stack market. The class of languages accepted by droca's is a proper subclass of the class of languages accepted by doca's. Valiant has shown that the regularity problem for doca's is decidable in a single exponential worst-case time complexity. In this paper, we prove that the class of languages accepted by droca's which accept by final state is incomparable with the class of languages accepted by droca's which accept by empty stack (strict droca's), and that the intersection of them is equal to the class of strict regular languages. In addition, we present a new direct branching algorithm for checking the regularity for not only a strict droca but also a real-time droca which accepts by final state. Then we show that the worst-case time complexity of our algorithm is polynomial in the size of each droca.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E79-D No.7 pp.914-924
Publication Date
1996/07/25
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Automata,Languages and Theory of Computing

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