Myhill-Nerode theorem for recognizable tree series revisited

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Maletti

  • Affiliations:
  • International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA

  • Venue:
  • LATIN'08 Proceedings of the 8th Latin American conference on Theoretical informatics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this contribution the MYHILL-NERODE congruence relation on tree series is reviewed and a more detailed analysis of its properties is presented. It is shown that, if a tree series is deterministically recognizable over a zero-divisor free and commutative semiring, then the MYHILL-NERODE congruence relation has finite index. By [Borchardt: Myhill-Nerode Theorem for Recognizable Tree Series. LNCS 2710. Springer 2003] the converse holds for commutative semifields, but not in general. In the second part, a slightly adapted version of the MYHILL-NERODE congruence relation is defined and a characterization is obtained for all-accepting weighted tree automata over multiplicatively cancellative and commutative semirings.