On Automatic Partial Orders

  • Authors:
  • Bakhadyr Khoussainov;Sasha Rubin;Frank Stephan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • LICS '03 Proceedings of the 18th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We investigate partial orders that are computable, in a precisesense, by finite automata. Our emphasis is on treesand linear orders. We study the relationship between automaticlinear orders and trees in terms of rank functions thatare versions of Cantor-Bendixson rank. We prove that automaticlinear orders and automatic trees have finite rank.As an application we provide a procedure for deciding theisomorphism problem for automatic ordinals. We also investigatethe complexity and definability of infinite paths inautomatic trees. In particular, we show that every infinitepath in an automatic tree with countably many infinite pathsis a regular language.