Squaring transducers: an efficient procedure for deciding functionality and sequentiality

  • Authors:
  • Marie-Pierre Béal;Olivier Carton;Christophe Prieur;Jacques Sakarovitch

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut Gaspard Monge, Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France;Institut Gaspard Monge, Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France;LIAFA, Université Paris 7/CNRS, France;Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information ENST/CNRS, Paris, France

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We describe here a construction on transducers that give a new conceptual proof for two classical decidability results on transducers: it is decidable whether a finite transducer realizes a functional relation, and whether a finite transducer realizes a sequential relation. A better complexity follows then for the two decision procedures.