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Thomas Place ; Luc Segoufin.
A regular tree language L is locally testable if membership of a tree in L depends only on the presence or absence of some fix set of neighborhoods in the tree. In this paper we show that it is decidable whether a regular tree language is locally testable. The decidability is shown for ranked trees […]
Published on November 22, 2011
Mikołaj Bojańczyk ; Luc Segoufin ; Howard Straubing.
This paper presents a decidable characterization of tree languages that can be defined by a boolean combination of Sigma_1 sentences. This is a tree extension of the Simon theorem, which says that a string language can be defined by a boolean combination of Sigma_1 sentences if and only if its […]
Published on September 29, 2012