From Bidirectionality to Alternation

N. Piterman and M. Vardi

We describe an explicit simulation of 2-way nondeterministic automata by 1-way alternating automata with quadratic blow-up. We first describe the construction for automata on finite words, and extend it to automata on infinite words.

26th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science


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