## V. Dave ; E. Filiot ; S. Krishna ; N. Lhote - Synthesis of Computable Regular Functions of Infinite Words

lmcs:7592 - Logical Methods in Computer Science, June 29, 2022, Volume 18, Issue 2 - https://doi.org/10.46298/lmcs-18(2:23)2022
Synthesis of Computable Regular Functions of Infinite Words

Authors: V. Dave ; E. Filiot ; S. Krishna ; N. Lhote

Regular functions from infinite words to infinite words can be equivalently specified by MSO-transducers, streaming $\omega$-string transducers as well as deterministic two-way transducers with look-ahead. In their one-way restriction, the latter transducers define the class of rational functions. Even though regular functions are robustly characterised by several finite-state devices, even the subclass of rational functions may contain functions which are not computable (by a Turing machine with infinite input). This paper proposes a decision procedure for the following synthesis problem: given a regular function $f$ (equivalently specified by one of the aforementioned transducer model), is $f$ computable and if it is, synthesize a Turing machine computing it. For regular functions, we show that computability is equivalent to continuity, and therefore the problem boils down to deciding continuity. We establish a generic characterisation of continuity for functions preserving regular languages under inverse image (such as regular functions). We exploit this characterisation to show the decidability of continuity (and hence computability) of rational and regular functions. For rational functions, we show that this can be done in $\mathsf{NLogSpace}$ (it was already known to be in $\mathsf{PTime}$ by Prieur). In a similar fashion, we also effectively characterise uniform continuity of regular functions, and relate it to the notion of uniform computability, which offers stronger efficiency guarantees.

Volume: Volume 18, Issue 2
Published on: June 29, 2022
Accepted on: March 31, 2022
Submitted on: June 16, 2021
Keywords: Computer Science - Formal Languages and Automata Theory,Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science