A probabilistic kleene theorem

  • Authors:
  • Benedikt Bollig;Paul Gastin;Benjamin Monmege;Marc Zeitoun

  • Affiliations:
  • LSV, ENS Cachan, CNRS & Inria, France;LSV, ENS Cachan, CNRS & Inria, France;LSV, ENS Cachan, CNRS & Inria, France;LaBRI, Univ. Bordeaux & CNRS, France

  • Venue:
  • ATVA'12 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We provide a Kleene Theorem for (Rabin) probabilistic automata over finite words. Probabilistic automata generalize deterministic finite automata and assign to a word an acceptance probability. We provide probabilistic expressions with probabilistic choice, guarded choice, concatenation, and a star operator. We prove that probabilistic expressions and probabilistic automata are expressively equivalent. Our result actually extends to two-way probabilistic automata with pebbles and corresponding expressions.