| Issue |
RAIRO-Theor. Inf. Appl.
Volume 43, Number 1, January-March 2009
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| Page(s) | 95 - 132 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/ita:2007063 | |
| Published online | 15 January 2008 | |
Hierarchies and reducibilities on regular languages related to modulo counting
A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems,
Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences; vseliv@nspu.ru
Received:
26
March
2006
Accepted:
27
November
2007
We discuss some known and introduce some new hierarchies and reducibilities on regular languages, with the emphasis on the quantifier-alternation and difference hierarchies of the quasi-aperiodic languages. The non-collapse of these hierarchies and decidability of some levels are established. Complete sets in the levels of the hierarchies under the polylogtime and some quantifier-free reducibilities are found. Some facts about the corresponding degree structures are established. As an application, we characterize the regular languages whose balanced leaf-language classes are contained in the polynomial hierarchy. For any discussed reducibility we try to give motivations and open questions, in a hope to convince the reader that the study of these reducibilities is interesting for automata theory and computational complexity.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 03D05 / 03C13 / 68Q15
Key words: Regular language / quasi-aperiodic regular language / quantifier-alternation hierarchy / difference hierarchy / polylogtime reducibility / quantifier-free reducibility / forbidden pattern.
© EDP Sciences, 2008
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