Degrees of ambiguity of Büchi tree automata

Alexander Rabinovich, Doron Tiferet*

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Abstract

An automaton is unambiguous if for every input it has at most one accepting computation. An automaton is finitely (respectively, countably) ambiguous if for every input it has at most finitely (respectively, countably) many accepting computations. An automaton is boundedly ambiguous if there is k ∈ N, such that for every input it has at most k accepting computations. We consider nondeterministic Büchi automata (NBA) over infinite trees and prove that it is decidable in polynomial time, whether an automaton is unambiguous, boundedly ambiguous, finitely ambiguous, or countably ambiguous.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication39th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, FSTTCS 2019
EditorsArkadev Chattopadhyay, Paul Gastin
PublisherSchloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing
ISBN (Electronic)9783959771313
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2019
Event39th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, FSTTCS 2019 - Bombay, India
Duration: 11 Dec 201913 Dec 2019

Publication series

NameLeibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs
Volume150
ISSN (Print)1868-8969

Conference

Conference39th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, FSTTCS 2019
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityBombay
Period11/12/1913/12/19

Funding

FundersFunder number
Blavatnik Family Foundation

    Keywords

    • Ambiguous automata
    • Automata on infinite trees

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