Weighted automata and multi-valued logics over arbitrary bounded lattices

  • Authors:
  • Manfred Droste;Heiko Vogler

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computer Science, Leipzig University, D-04109 Leipzig, Germany;Faculty of Computer Science, Technische Universität Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We show that L-weighted automata, L-rational series, and L-valued monadic second order logic have the same expressive power, for any bounded lattice L and for finite and infinite words. We also prove that aperiodicity, star-freeness, and L-valued first-order and LTL-definability coincide. This extends classical results of Kleene, Buchi-Elgot-Trakhtenbrot, and others to arbitrary bounded lattices, without any distributivity assumption that is fundamental in the theory of weighted automata over semirings. In fact, we obtain these results for large classes of strong bimonoids which properly contain all bounded lattices.