Abstract
It is well known that for a given bottom-up tree automaton it can be decided whether or not an equivalent deterministic top-down tree automaton exists. Recently it was claimed that such a decision can be carried out in polynomial time (Leupold and Maneth, FCT'2021); but their procedure and corresponding property is wrong. Here we address this mistake and present a correct property which allows to determine in polynomial time whether or not a given tree language can be recognized by a deterministic top-down tree automaton. Furthermore, our new property is stated for arbitrary deterministic bottom-up tree automata, and not only for minimal such automata (as before).
Original language | English |
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Article number | 106449 |
Journal | Information Processing Letters |
Volume | 184 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2024 |
Keywords
- Automata
- Deterministic top-down
- Trees