Regularity problems for visibly pushdown languages

Vince Bárány, Christof Löding, Olivier Serre

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Abstract

Visibly pushdown automata are special pushdown automata whose stack behavior is driven by the input symbols according to a partition of the alphabet. We show that it is decidable for a given visibly pushdown automaton whether it is equivalent to a visibly counter automaton, i.e. an automaton that uses its stack only as counter. In particular, this allows to decide whether a given visibly pushdown language is a regular restriction of the set of well-matched words, meaning that the language can be accepted by a finite automaton if only well-matched words are considered as input.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSTACS 2006
Subtitle of host publication23rd Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages420-431
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)3540323015, 9783540323013
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2006
Externally publishedYes
EventSTACS 2006: 23rd Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, Proceedings - Marseille, France
Duration: 23 Feb 200625 Feb 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3884 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceSTACS 2006: 23rd Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, Proceedings
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityMarseille
Period23/02/0625/02/06

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