Sequences of level 1, 2, 3,..., k,...

  • Authors:
  • Géraud Sénizergues

  • Affiliations:
  • LaBRI and UFR Math-info, Université Bordeaux1, Talence Cedex

  • Venue:
  • CSR'07 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Computer Science: theory and applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Sequences of numbers (either natural integers, or integers or rational) of level k ∈ IN have been defined in [FS06] as the sequences which can be computed by deterministic pushdown automata of level k. We extend this definition to sequences of words indexed by words. We give characterisations of these sequences in terms of "higher-order" L-systems. In particular sequences of rational numbers of level 3 are characterised by polynomial recurrences (which generalize the Precurrent sequences studied in [Sta80]). The equality problem for sequences of rational numbers of level 3 is shown decidable.