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The Power of Non-deterministic Reassignment in Infinite-Alphabet Pushdown Automata

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Languages: From Formal to Natural

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In this paper we compare two models of pushdown automata over infinite alphabets, one with non-deterministic reassignment and the other with the deterministic one, and show that the former model is stronger than the latter.

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Dubov, Y., Kaminski, M. (2009). The Power of Non-deterministic Reassignment in Infinite-Alphabet Pushdown Automata. In: Grumberg, O., Kaminski, M., Katz, S., Wintner, S. (eds) Languages: From Formal to Natural. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5533. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01748-3_8

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