A note on emptiness for alternating finite automata with a one-letter alphabet
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چکیده
We present a new proof of PSPACE-hardness of the emptiness problem for alternating finite automata with a singleton alphabet. This result was shown by Holzer (1995) who used a proof relying on a series of reductions from several papers. The new proof is simple, direct and self-contained.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Inf. Process. Lett.
دوره 104 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007