Abstract families of graphs

  • Authors:
  • Tanguy Urvoy

  • Affiliations:
  • IRISA, Rennes and Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu, Rennes, France

  • Venue:
  • DLT'02 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Developments in language theory
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A natural way to describe a family of languages is to use rational transformations from a generator. From these transformations, Ginsburg and Greibach have defined the Abstract Family of Languages (AFL). Infinite graphs (also called infinite automata) are natural tools to study languages. In this paper, we study families of infinite graphs that are described from generators by transformations preserving the decidability of monadic second order logic. We define the Abstract Family of Graphs (AFG). We show that traces of AFG are rational cones and traces of AFG that admit a rationally colored generator are AFL. We generalize some properties of prefix recognizable graphs to AFG. We apply these tools and the notion of geometrical complexity to study subfamilies of prefix recognizable graphs.