From bidirectionality to alternation

  • Authors:
  • Nir Piterman;Moshe Y. Vardi

  • Affiliations:
  • Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Computer Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel;Rice University, Department of Computer Science, Houston, TX

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science - Mathematical foundations of computer science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We describe an explicit simulation of 2-way nondeterministic automata by 1-way alternating automata with quadratic blow-up. We first describe the construction for automata on finite words, and extend it to automata on infinite words.