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Hierarchies and reducibilities on regular languages related to modulo counting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2008

Victor L. Selivanov
Victor L. Selivanov*
Affiliation:
A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences; vseliv@nspu.ru
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Abstract

We discuss some known and introduce some new hierarchies andreducibilities on regular languages, with the emphasis on thequantifier-alternation and difference hierarchies of thequasi-aperiodic languages. The non-collapse of these hierarchies anddecidability of some levels are established. Complete sets in thelevels of the hierarchies under the polylogtime and somequantifier-free reducibilities are found. Some facts about thecorresponding degree structures are established. As an application,we characterize the regular languages whose balanced leaf-languageclasses are contained in the polynomial hierarchy. For anydiscussed reducibility we try to give motivations and openquestions, in a hope to convince the reader that the study of thesereducibilities is interesting for automata theory and computationalcomplexity.

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Regular languagequasi-aperiodic regular languagequantifier-alternation hierarchydifference hierarchypolylogtimereducibilityquantifier-free reducibilityforbidden pattern.

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RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 95 - 132
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© EDP Sciences, 2008

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