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On Two-Way Transducers

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We look at some classes of two-way transducers with auxiliary memory and investigate their containment and equivalence problems. We believe that our results are the strongest known to date concerning two-way transducers.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA

    Oscar H. Ibarra

  2. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, 106, Taiwan, ROC

    Hsu-Chun Yen

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Ibarra, O.H., Yen, HC. (2011). On Two-Way Transducers. In: Mauri, G., Leporati, A. (eds) Developments in Language Theory. DLT 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6795. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22321-1_26

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