One-way definability of two-way word transducers

Autor: Baschenis, Félix, Gauwin, Olivier, Muscholl, Anca, Puppis, Gabriele
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Logical Methods in Computer Science, Volume 14, Issue 4 (December 7, 2018) lmcs:3697
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.23638/LMCS-14(4:22)2018
Popis: Functional transductions realized by two-way transducers (or, equally, by streaming transducers or MSO transductions) are the natural and standard notion of "regular" mappings from words to words. It was shown in 2013 that it is decidable if such a transduction can be implemented by some one-way transducer, but the given algorithm has non-elementary complexity. We provide an algorithm of different flavor solving the above question, that has doubly exponential space complexity. In the special case of sweeping transducers the complexity is one exponential less. We also show how to construct an equivalent one-way transducer, whenever it exists, in doubly or triply exponential time, again depending on whether the input transducer is sweeping or two-way. In the sweeping case our construction is shown to be optimal.
Databáze: arXiv