Hierarchies of infinite structures generated by pushdown automata and recursion schemes

  • Authors:
  • C.-H. L. Ong

  • Affiliations:
  • Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, England

  • Venue:
  • MFCS'07 Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Higher-order recursion schemes and higher-order pushdown automata are closely related methods for generating infinite hierarchies of infinite structures. Subsuming well-known classes of models of computation, these rich hierarchies (of word languages, trees, and graphs respectively) have excellent model-checking properties. In this extended abstract, we survey recent expressivity and decidability results about these infinite structures.