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Abstract State Machines 1988-1998: Commented ASM Bibliography
An annotated bibliography of papers which deal with or use Abstract State
Machines (ASMs), as of January 1998.Comment: Also maintained as a BibTeX file at http://www.eecs.umich.edu/gasm
Polishness of some topologies related to word or tree automata
We prove that the B\"uchi topology and the automatic topology are Polish. We
also show that this cannot be fully extended to the case of a space of infinite
labelled binary trees; in particular the B\"uchi and the Muller topologies are
not Polish in this case.Comment: This paper is an extended version of a paper which appeared in the
proceedings of the 26th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science and
Logic, CSL 2017. The main addition with regard to the conference paper
consists in the study of the B\"uchi topology and of the Muller topology in
the case of a space of trees, which now forms Section
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Borel Ranks and Wadge Degrees of Context Free Omega Languages
We show that, from a topological point of view, considering the Borel and the
Wadge hierarchies, 1-counter B\"uchi automata have the same accepting power
than Turing machines equipped with a B\"uchi acceptance condition. In
particular, for every non null recursive ordinal alpha, there exist some
Sigma^0_alpha-complete and some Pi^0_alpha-complete omega context free
languages accepted by 1-counter B\"uchi automata, and the supremum of the set
of Borel ranks of context free omega languages is the ordinal gamma^1_2 which
is strictly greater than the first non recursive ordinal. This very surprising
result gives answers to questions of H. Lescow and W. Thomas [Logical
Specifications of Infinite Computations, In:"A Decade of Concurrency", LNCS
803, Springer, 1994, p. 583-621]
Wadge Degrees of -Languages of Petri Nets
We prove that -languages of (non-deterministic) Petri nets and
-languages of (non-deterministic) Turing machines have the same
topological complexity: the Borel and Wadge hierarchies of the class of
-languages of (non-deterministic) Petri nets are equal to the Borel and
Wadge hierarchies of the class of -languages of (non-deterministic)
Turing machines which also form the class of effective analytic sets. In
particular, for each non-null recursive ordinal there exist some -complete and some -complete -languages of Petri nets, and the supremum of
the set of Borel ranks of -languages of Petri nets is the ordinal
, which is strictly greater than the first non-recursive ordinal
. We also prove that there are some -complete, hence non-Borel, -languages of Petri nets, and
that it is consistent with ZFC that there exist some -languages of
Petri nets which are neither Borel nor -complete. This
answers the question of the topological complexity of -languages of
(non-deterministic) Petri nets which was left open in [DFR14,FS14].Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0712.1359, arXiv:0804.326
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