5 research outputs found
On a question of McNaughton and Papert
In a recent book, McNaughton and Papert asked under what conditions a free submonoid of a free monoid is locally testable. The answer to this question is given here. The solution relates the concept of local testability with that of synchronization in a code and the algebraic notion of conjugacy in a monoid. The finiteness of the basis (or code) which generates the free submonoid plays an essential role in our result
On a zeta function associated with automata and codes
AbstractThe zeta function of a finite automaton A is exp{∑n=1∞anznn}, where an is the number of bi-infinite paths in A labelled by a bi-infinite word of period n. It reflects the properties of A: aperiodicity, nil-simplicity, existence of a zero. The results are applied to codes
Profinite Groups Associated to Sofic Shifts are Free
We show that the maximal subgroup of the free profinite semigroup associated
by Almeida to an irreducible sofic shift is a free profinite group,
generalizing an earlier result of the second author for the case of the full
shift (whose corresponding maximal subgroup is the maximal subgroup of the
minimal ideal). A corresponding result is proved for certain relatively free
profinite semigroups. We also establish some other analogies between the kernel
of the free profinite semigroup and the \J-class associated to an irreducible
sofic shift
Syntactic semigroups
This chapter gives an overview on what is often called the algebraic theory of finite automata. It deals with languages, automata and semigroups, and has connections with model theory in logic, boolean circuits, symbolic dynamics and topology
Séries rationnelles et matrices génériques non commutatives
Dans ce travail, nous nous intéressons aux séries rationnelles et aux matrices génériques non commutatives. Dans le premier chapitre, on étudiera les polynômes de cliques du graphe pondéré. Soit C un graphe simple non orienté (sans boucles), on lui associe la somme des monômes (-1)i CiXi où Ci est le nombre de sous-graphes complets (cliques) sur i sommets. En pondérant les sommets par des entiers non négatifs, on définit les polynômes de cliques du graphe pondéré C comme étant la somme des monômes (-1)|B|xdeg(B), où B est un sous-graphe complet de C. On va montrer que l'ensemble de tels polynômes coïncide avec l'ensemble des polynômes réciproques des polynômes caractéristiques de matrices à coefficients entiers non négatifs. Au chapitre 2, on va généraliser ce polynôme une fois de plus en pondérant les sommets du graphe simple par des monômes de la forme αxd , où α est un réel positif et d, un entier non négatif. On va lui associer le polynôme de cliques généralisé comme la somme (-1)IBI