Unambiguous Büchi automata

  • Authors:
  • Olivier Carton;Max Michel

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut Gaspard Monge, CNRS, 5, Boulevard Descartes, F-77454 Marne-la-Vallée Cedex 2, France;CNET, 38, Rue du Général Leclerc, F-92131 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science - Latin American theoretical informatics
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a special class of Büchi automata called unambiguous. In these automata, any infinite word labels exactly one path going infinitely often through final states. The word is recognized by the automaton if this path starts in an initial state. The main result of the paper is that any rational set of infinite words is recognized by such an automaton. We give two proofs of this result. We also provide several related results.