A generalization of Cobham's theorem to automata over real numbers

  • Authors:
  • Bernard Boigelot;Julien Brusten

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut Montefiore, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium;Institut Montefiore, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • ICALP'07 Proceedings of the 34th international conference on Automata, Languages and Programming
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper studies the expressive power of finite-state automata recognizing sets of real numbers encoded positionally. It is known that the sets that are definable in the first-order additive theory of real and integer variables 〈R, Z,+,r 1. In this paper, we prove the reciprocal property, i.e., that a subset of R that is recognizable by weak deterministic automata in every base r 1 is necessarily definable in 〈R, Z,+,