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On Repetitive Finite Automata with Translucent Words

Published: July 21, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2507.15315v1

By: František Mráz, Friedrich Otto

Potential Business Impact:

Makes computers understand more complex patterns.

We introduce and study the repetitive variants of the deterministic and the nondeterministic finite automaton with translucent words (DFAwtw and NFAwtw). On seeing the right sentinel, a repetitive NFAwtw need not halt immediately, accepting or rejecting, but it may change into another state and continue with its computation. We establish that a repetitive DFAwtw already accepts a language that is not even semi-linear, which shows that the property of being repetitive increases the expressive capacity of the DFAwtw and the NFAwtw considerably.

Country of Origin
🇨🇿 🇩🇪 Germany, Czech Republic

Page Count
14 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Formal Languages and Automata Theory