Automatic Quotients of Free Groups

Automatic groups admitting prefix closed automatic structures with uniqueness are characterized as the quotients of free groups by normal subgroups possessing sets of free generators satisfying certain language-theoretic conditions.Comment: 14 pages, no figures. Minor corrections. Statements of theorems and lemmas are unchange

The Automatic Baire Property and an Effective Property of ω-Rational Functions

International audienceWe prove that ω-regular languages accepted by Büchi or Muller automata satisfy an effective automata-theoretic version of the Baire property. Then we use this result to obtain a new effective property of rational functions over infinite words which are realized by finite state Büchi transducers: for each such function F : Σ^ω → Γ^ω , one can construct a deterministic Büchi automaton A accepting a dense Π^0_2-subset of Σ^ω such that the restriction of F to L(A) is continuous

The monoid of queue actions

We investigate the monoid of transformations that are induced by sequences of writing to and reading from a queue storage. We describe this monoid by means of a confluent and terminating semi-Thue system and study some of its basic algebraic properties, e.g., conjugacy. Moreover, we show that while several properties concerning its rational subsets are undecidable, their uniform membership problem is NL-complete. Furthermore, we present an algebraic characterization of this monoid's recognizable subsets. Finally, we prove that it is not Thurston-automatic

Highly Undecidable Problems For Infinite Computations

We show that many classical decision problems about 1-counter omega-languages, context free omega-languages, or infinitary rational relations, are $\Pi_2^1$-complete, hence located at the second level of the analytical hierarchy, and "highly undecidable". In particular, the universality problem, the inclusion problem, the equivalence problem, the determinizability problem, the complementability problem, and the unambiguity problem are all $\Pi_2^1$-complete for context-free omega-languages or for infinitary rational relations. Topological and arithmetical properties of 1-counter omega-languages, context free omega-languages, or infinitary rational relations, are also highly undecidable. These very surprising results provide the first examples of highly undecidable problems about the behaviour of very simple finite machines like 1-counter automata or 2-tape automata.Comment: to appear in RAIRO-Theoretical Informatics and Application

The Automatic Baire Property and An Effective Property of ω-Rational Functions

We prove that $\omega$-regular languages accepted by B\"uchi or Muller automata satisfy an effective automata-theoretic version of the Baire property. Then we use this result to obtain a new effective property of rational functions over infinite words which are realized by finite state B\"uchi transducers: for each such function $F: \Sigma^\omega \rightarrow \Gamma^\omega$, one can construct a deterministic B\"uchi automaton $\mathcal{A}$ accepting a dense ${\bf \Pi}^0_2$-subset of $\Sigma^\omega$ such that the restriction of $F$ to $L(\mathcal{A})$ is continuous