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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 July 2007
As already 2-monotone R-automata accept NP-complete languages,we introduce a restricted variant of j-monotonicityfor restarting automata, called sequential j-monotonicity.For restarting automata without auxiliary symbols,this restricted variant still yields infinite hierarchies.However, for restarting automata with auxiliary symbols,all degrees of sequential monotonicity collapse to thefirst level, implying that RLWW-automatathat are sequentially monotone of degree j for any j ≥ 1 only accept context-free languages.