Unary automatic graphs: an algorithmic perspective

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2008-04-30
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Khoussainov, B
Liu, J
Minnes, M
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Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg
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This paper studies infinite graphs produced from a natural unfolding operation applied to finite graphs. Graphs produced via such operations are of finite degree and can be described by finite automata over the unary alphabet. We investigate algorithmic properties of such unfolded graphs given their finite presentations. In particular, we ask whether a given node belongs to an infinite component, whether two given nodes in the graph are reachable from one another, and whether the graph is connected. We give polynomial time algorithms for each of these questions. Hence, we improve on previous work, in which nonelementary or non-uniform algorithms were found

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Theory and Applications of Models of Computation: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Theory and applications of models of computation (Proceeding TAMC'08), Xi'An, China, vol.4978, pages 542 - 553
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