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Note on the Succinctness of Deterministic, Nondeterministic, Probabilistic and Quantum Finite Automata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2002

Carlo Mereghetti ,
Beatrice Palano  and
Giovanni Pighizzini
Carlo Mereghetti
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Informatica, Sist. e Com., Università degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca, via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, 20126 Milano, Italy; mereghetti@disco.unimib.it.
Beatrice Palano
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino, c.so Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino, Italy; beatrice@di.unito.it.
Giovanni Pighizzini
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Comelico 39, 20135 Milano, Italy; pighizzi@dsi.unimi.it.
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Abstract

We investigate the succinctness of several kinds of unary automata by studying their state complexity in accepting the family {Lm } of cyclic languages, where Lm = akm | k ∈ N. In particular, we show that, for any m, the number of states necessary and sufficient for accepting the unary language L m with isolated cut point on one-way probabilistic finite automata is $p_1^{\alpha_1}+ p_2^{\alpha_2} +\cdots +p_s^{\alpha_s}$ , with $p_1^{\alpha_1}p_2^{\alpha_2} \cdots p_s^{\alpha_s}$ being the factorization of m. To prove this result, we give a general state lower bound for accepting unary languages with isolated cut point on the one-way probabilistic model. Moreover, we exhibit one-way quantum finite automata that, for any m, accept L m with isolated cut point and only two states. These results are settled within a survey on unary automata aiming to compare the descriptional power of deterministic, nondeterministic, probabilistic and quantum paradigms.

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Deterministicnondeterministicprobabilisticquantum unaryfinite automata.

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RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , September 2001 , pp. 477 - 490
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© EDP Sciences, 2001

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