Operations on Boolean and Alternating Finite Automata

Galina Jirásková

We examine the complexity of basic regular operations on languages represented by Boolean and alternating finite automata. We get tight upper bounds m+n and m+n+1 for union, intersection, and difference, 2^m+n and 2^m+n+1 for concatenation, 2^n+n and 2^n+n+1 for square, m and m+1 for left quotient, 2^m and 2^m+1 for right quotient. We also show that in both models, the complexity of complementation and symmetric difference is n and m+n, respectively, while the complexity of star and reversal is 2^n. All our witnesses are described over a unary or binary alphabets, and whenever we use a binary alphabet, it is always optimal.

Invited Presentation in Zsolt Gazdag, Szabolcs Iván and Gergely Kovásznai: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Automata and Formal Languages (AFL 2023), Eger, Hungary, September 5-7, 2023, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 386, pp. 3–10.
Published: 3rd September 2023.

ArXived at: https://dx.doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.386.1 bibtex PDF
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