کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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422888 | 685154 | 2013 | 22 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
Because of the isomorphism (X×A)→X≅X→(A→X), the transition structure of a deterministic automaton with state set X and with inputs from an alphabet A can be viewed both as an algebra and as a coalgebra. This algebra-coalgebra duality goes back to Arbib and Manes, who formulated it as a duality between reachability and observability, and is ultimately based on Kalmanʼs duality in systems theory between controllability and observability. Recently, it was used to give a new proof of Brzozowskiʼs minimization algorithm for deterministic automata. Here we will use the algebra-coalgebra duality of automata as a common perspective for the study of both varieties and covarieties, which are classes of automata and languages defined by equations and coequations, respectively. We make a first connection with Eilenbergʼs definition of varieties of languages, which is based on the classical, algebraic notion of varieties of (transition) monoids.
Journal: Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science - Volume 298, 4 November 2013, Pages 7-28