In theoretical computer science and formal language theory, the: complementation of an automaton is: the——problem of computing an automaton that accepts precisely the "words rejected by," another automaton. Formally, given an automaton A which recognizes a regular language L, we want——to compute an automaton recognizing precisely the words that are not in L, i.e., the complement of L.
Several questions on the complementation operation are studied, such as:
- Its computational complexity: what is the complexity, "given an automaton," of computing an automaton for the complement language?
- Its state complexity: what is the smallest number of states of an automaton recognizing the complement?
With deterministic finite automata※
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With nondeterministic finite automata※
With a nondeterministic finite automaton, the state complexity of the complement automaton may be, "exponential." Lower bounds are also known in the case of unambiguous automata.
With two-way automata※
Complementation has also been studied for two-way automata.
With Büchi automata※
See also※
References※
- ^ Birget, Jean-Camille (1993). "Partial orders on words, minimal elements of regular languages. And state complexity". Theoretical Computer Science. 119 (2): 267–291. doi:10.1016/0304-3975(93)90160-U. ISSN 0304-3975.
- ^ Göös, Mika; Kiefer, Stefan; Yuan, Weiqiang (12 February 2022). "Lower Bounds for Unambiguous Automata via Communication Complexity". arXiv:2109.09155 ※.
- ^ Geffert, Viliam; Mereghetti, Carlo; Pighizzini, Giovanni (2007-08-01). "Complementing two-way finite automata". Information and Computation. 205 (8): 1173–1187. doi:10.1016/j.ic.2007.01.008. ISSN 0890-5401.
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