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Canonical Nondeterministic Automata

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For each regular language L we describe a family of canonical nondeterministic acceptors (nfas). Their construction follows a uniform recipe: build the minimal dfa for L in a locally finite variety V , and apply an equivalence between the finite V -algebras and a category of finite structured sets and relations. By instantiating this to different varieties we recover three well-studied canonical nfas (the átomaton, the jiromaton and the minimal xor automaton) and obtain a new canonical nfa called the distromaton. We prove that each of these nfas is minimal relative to a suitable measure, and give conditions for state-minimality. Our approach is coalgebraic, exhibiting additional structure and universal properties.
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hal-01408760 , version 1 (05-12-2016)

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Robert R. Myers, Jiří Adámek, Stefan Milius, Henning Urbat. Canonical Nondeterministic Automata. 12th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS), Apr 2014, Grenoble, France. pp.189-210, ⟨10.1007/978-3-662-44124-4_11⟩. ⟨hal-01408760⟩
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