Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2010
In a previous paper, we have described the construction of anautomaton from a rational expression which has the property thatthe automaton built from an expression which is itself computedfrom a co-deterministic automaton by the state elimination methodis co-deterministic. It turned out that the definition on which the construction isbased was inappropriate, and thus the proof of the property wasflawed. We give here the correct definition of the broken derived termsof an expression which allow to define the automaton and thedetailed full proof of the property.