{"date_published":"2021-08-18T00:00:00Z","file_date_updated":"2021-10-06T12:44:05Z","oa_version":"Published Version","date_created":"2021-10-03T22:01:23Z","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","has_accepted_license":"1","article_processing_charge":"No","publication_identifier":{"isbn":["978-3-9597-7201-3"],"issn":["1868-8969"]},"type":"conference","month":"08","ddc":["000"],"ec_funded":1,"status":"public","title":"A bit of nondeterminism makes pushdown automata expressive and succinct","department":[{"_id":"KrCh"}],"alternative_title":["LIPIcs"],"tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"intvolume":"       202","citation":{"chicago":"Guha, Shibashis, Ismael R Jecker, Karoliina Lehtinen, and Martin Zimmermann. “A Bit of Nondeterminism Makes Pushdown Automata Expressive and Succinct.” In <i>46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science</i>, Vol. 202. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, 2021. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.53\">https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.53</a>.","mla":"Guha, Shibashis, et al. “A Bit of Nondeterminism Makes Pushdown Automata Expressive and Succinct.” <i>46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science</i>, vol. 202, 53, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, 2021, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.53\">10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.53</a>.","apa":"Guha, S., Jecker, I. R., Lehtinen, K., &#38; Zimmermann, M. (2021). A bit of nondeterminism makes pushdown automata expressive and succinct. In <i>46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science</i> (Vol. 202). Tallinn, Estonia: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.53\">https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.53</a>","ieee":"S. Guha, I. R. Jecker, K. Lehtinen, and M. Zimmermann, “A bit of nondeterminism makes pushdown automata expressive and succinct,” in <i>46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science</i>, Tallinn, Estonia, 2021, vol. 202.","ista":"Guha S, Jecker IR, Lehtinen K, Zimmermann M. 2021. A bit of nondeterminism makes pushdown automata expressive and succinct. 46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science. MFCS: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, LIPIcs, vol. 202, 53.","ama":"Guha S, Jecker IR, Lehtinen K, Zimmermann M. A bit of nondeterminism makes pushdown automata expressive and succinct. In: <i>46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science</i>. Vol 202. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik; 2021. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.53\">10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.53</a>","short":"S. Guha, I.R. Jecker, K. Lehtinen, M. Zimmermann, in:, 46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, 2021."},"author":[{"full_name":"Guha, Shibashis","last_name":"Guha","first_name":"Shibashis"},{"first_name":"Ismael R","id":"85D7C63E-7D5D-11E9-9C0F-98C4E5697425","full_name":"Jecker, Ismael R","last_name":"Jecker"},{"full_name":"Lehtinen, Karoliina","last_name":"Lehtinen","first_name":"Karoliina"},{"first_name":"Martin","last_name":"Zimmermann","full_name":"Zimmermann, Martin"}],"project":[{"_id":"260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"754411","call_identifier":"H2020","name":"ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships"}],"abstract":[{"text":"We study the expressiveness and succinctness of good-for-games pushdown automata (GFG-PDA) over finite words, that is, pushdown automata whose nondeterminism can be resolved based on the run constructed so far, but independently of the remainder of the input word. We prove that GFG-PDA recognise more languages than deterministic PDA (DPDA) but not all context-free languages (CFL). This class is orthogonal to unambiguous CFL. We further show that GFG-PDA can be exponentially more succinct than DPDA, while PDA can be double-exponentially more succinct than GFG-PDA. We also study GFGness in visibly pushdown automata (VPA), which enjoy better closure properties than PDA, and for which we show GFGness to be ExpTime-complete. GFG-VPA can be exponentially more succinct than deterministic VPA, while VPA can be exponentially more succinct than GFG-VPA. Both of these lower bounds are tight. Finally, we study the complexity of resolving nondeterminism in GFG-PDA. Every GFG-PDA has a positional resolver, a function that resolves nondeterminism and that is only dependant on the current configuration. Pushdown transducers are sufficient to implement the resolvers of GFG-VPA, but not those of GFG-PDA. GFG-PDA with finite-state resolvers are determinisable.","lang":"eng"}],"quality_controlled":"1","scopus_import":"1","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"oa":1,"day":"18","volume":202,"year":"2021","publisher":"Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik","external_id":{"arxiv":["2105.02611"]},"publication_status":"published","acknowledgement":"Ismaël Jecker: Funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 754411. Karoliina Lehtinen: Funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 892704.","file":[{"date_created":"2021-10-06T12:44:05Z","file_size":825567,"content_type":"application/pdf","success":1,"file_id":"10097","relation":"main_file","creator":"cchlebak","access_level":"open_access","file_name":"2021_LIPIcs_Guha.pdf","checksum":"f4d407d43a97330c3fb11e6a7a6fbfb2","date_updated":"2021-10-06T12:44:05Z"}],"doi":"10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.53","publication":"46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science","_id":"10075","date_updated":"2022-05-13T08:21:56Z","conference":{"location":"Tallinn, Estonia","start_date":"2021-08-23","end_date":"2021-08-27","name":"MFCS: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science"},"article_number":"53"}