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On the equivalence of linear conjunctive grammars and trellis automata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2004

Alexander Okhotin
Alexander Okhotin*
Affiliation:
School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; okhotin@cs.queensu.ca.
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Abstract

This paper establishes computational equivalence of two seemingly unrelated concepts: linear conjunctive grammars and trellis automata. Trellis automata, also studied under the name of one-way real-time cellular automata, have been known since early 1980s as a purely abstract model of parallel computers, while linear conjunctive grammars, introduced a few years ago, are linear context-free grammars extended with an explicit intersection operation. Their equivalence implies the equivalence of several other formal systems, including a certain restricted class of Turing machines and a certain type of language equations, thus giving further evidence for the importance of the language family they all generate.

Keywords

Conjunctive grammartrellis automatoncellular automatonlanguage equationTuring machine.
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Research Article
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RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , January 2004 , pp. 69 - 88
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© EDP Sciences, 2004

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