Jean-Eric Pin

Bio: Jean-Eric Pin is an academic researcher from Paris Diderot University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Variety (universal algebra) & Monoid. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 152 publications receiving 5020 citations. Previous affiliations of Jean-Eric Pin include Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University & University of Paris.

Infinite Words: Automata, Semigroups, Logic and Games

Abstract: Infinite Words is an important theory in both Mathematics and Computer Sciences. Many new developments have been made in the field, encouraged by its application to problems in computer science. Infinite Words is the first manual devoted to this topic. Infinite Words explores all aspects of the theory, including Automata, Semigroups, Topology, Games, Logic, Bi-infinite Words, Infinite Trees and Finite Words. The book also looks at the early pioneering work of B chi, McNaughton and Sch tzenberger. Serves as both an introduction to the field and as a reference book. Contains numerous exercises desgined to aid students and readers. Self-contained chapters provide helpful guidance for lectures.

Syntactic semigroups

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On two Combinatorial Problems Arising from Automata Theory

Abstract: We present some partial results on the following conjectures arising from automata theory. The first conjecture is the triangle conjecture due to Perrin and Schiitzenberger. Let A ={a, b } be a two-letter alphabet, d a positive integer and let B d ={ a i ba j |0 ≤ i + j ≤ d }. If X C B d is a code, then | X ≤ d + 1. The second conjecture is due to Cerny and the author. Let be an automaton with n states. If there exists a word of rank n - k in , there exists such a word of length ≤ k 2 .

Polynomial closure and unambiguous product

Abstract: This article is a contribution to the algebraic theory of automata, but it also contains an application to Buchi’s sequential calculus. The polynomial closure of a class of languagesC is the set of languages that are finite unions of languages of the formL 0 a 1 L 1 ···a nLn, where thea i’s are letters and theL i’s are elements ofC. Our main result is an algebraic characterization, via the syntactic monoid, of the polynomial closure of a variety of languages. We show that the algebraic operation corresponding to the polynomial closure is a certain Mal’cev product of varieties. This result has several consequences. We first study the concatenation hierarchies similar to the dot-depth hierarchy, obtained by counting the number of alternations between boolean operations and concatenation. For instance, we show that level 3/2 of the Straubing hierarchy is decidable and we give a simplified proof of the partial result of Cowan on level 2. We propose a general conjecture for these hierarchies. We also show that if a language and its complement are in the polynomial closure of a variety of languages, then this language can be written as a disjoint union of marked unambiguous products of languages of the variety. This allows us to extend the results of Thomas on quantifier hierarchies of first-order logic.

Automata on infinite objects

Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on finite automata on infinite sequences and infinite trees. The chapter discusses the complexity of the complementation process and the equivalence test. Deterministic Muller automata and nondeterministic Buchi automata are equivalent in recognition power. Any nonempty Rabin recognizable set contains a regular tree and shows that the emptiness problem for Rabin tree automata is decidable. The chapter discusses the formulation of two interesting generalizations of Rabin's Tree Theorem and presents some remarks on the undecidable extensions of the monadic theory of the binary tree. A short overview of the work that studies the fine structure of the class of Rabin recognizable sets of trees is also presented in the chapter. Depending on the formalism in which tree properties are classified, the results fall in three categories: monadic second-order logic, tree automata, and fixed-point calculi.

Languages, automata, and logic

Abstract: The subject of this chapter is the study of formal languages (mostly languages recognizable by finite automata) in the framework of mathematical logic.