From Regular to Strictly Locally Testable Languages

A classical result (often credited to Y. Medvedev) states that every language recognized by a finite automaton is the homomorphic image of a local language, over a much larger so-called local alphabet, namely the alphabet of the edges of the transition graph. Local languages are characterized by the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stefano Crespi Reghizzi, Pierluigi San Pietro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2011-08-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1108.3626v1