Automatic linear orders and trees

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

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;National University of Singapore, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We investigate partial orders that are computable, in a precise sense, by finite automata. Our emphasis is on trees and linear orders. We study the relationship between automatic linear orders and trees in terms of rank functions that are related to Cantor--Bendixson rank. We prove that automatic linear orders and automatic trees have finite rank. As an application we provide a procedure for deciding the isomorphism problem for automatic ordinals. We also investigate the complexity and definability of infinite paths in automatic trees. In particular, we show that every infinite path in an automatic tree with countably many infinite paths is a regular language.