An extended direct branching algorithm for checking equivalence of deterministic pushdown automata (Q801689)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3880133
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    An extended direct branching algorithm for checking equivalence of deterministic pushdown automata
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3880133

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      An extended direct branching algorithm for checking equivalence of deterministic pushdown automata (English)
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      1984
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      This paper extends the author's direct branching algorithm [Inf. Control. 52, 187-238 (1982; Zbl 0541.68053)] for checking equivalence of deterministic pushdown automata. It does so by providing a technique called 'halting' for dealing with nodes with unbounded degree in the comparison tree. This may occur when a skipping step may be applied infinitely many times to a certain node, as a result of infinite sequences of \(\epsilon\)-moves. This extension allows the algorithm to check equivalence of the deterministic pushdown automata when none of them is real-time, but in a certain condition that properly contains a case where one of them is real-time strict.
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      direct branching algorithm
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      equivalence of deterministic pushdown automata
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      comparison tree
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