Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
428799 Information Processing Letters 2007 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

We present a new proof of PSPACE-hardness of the emptiness problem for alternating finite automata with a singleton alphabet. This result was shown by Holzer (1995) who used a proof relying on a series of reductions from several papers. The new proof is simple, direct and self-contained.

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