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Adventures Between
Lower Bounds
and Higher Altitudes
Essays Dedicated to Juraj Hromkovič
on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday
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Editors
Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer Walter Unger
ETH Zürich RWTH Aachen University
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ETH Zürich
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Preface
This book is dedicated to Juraj Hromkovič on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Juraj
was born on August 24, 1958, in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. His first encounter with
computer science took place at the Jur Hronec high school (Gymnázium Jura Hronca)
in Bratislava in 1973, which he today refers to as a paradise for computer scientists.
One of the reasons for that, and this seems like something to keep a note of when
describing his further career, was a highly motivated teacher called Ondrej Demáček.
From 1977 to 1982, Juraj studied computer science at Comenius University in Bra-
tislava, where he received his first PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1982, his second PhD (CSc) in
1986, and his habilitation in the area of Theoretical Cybernetics and Mathematical
Informatics in 1989. From 1982 until 1985, Juraj worked as an assistant at the
Department of Theoretical Cybernetics at Comenius University, where his early
research focused on the theory of automata and Turing machines and communication
complexity. Although his area of research broadened by magnitudes since that time, an
echo of these first steps can still be heard in his ongoing research and teaching focus.
Especially his results on two-way and multi-head deterministic and nondeterministic
automata made an impact in this area.
In 1989, Juraj became associate professor at Comenius University, and in the same
year he followed the invitation by Burkhard Monien to become a visiting professor at
Paderborn University, where he stayed until 1994. During this period, his two
daughters were born, and he obtained his third PhD in mathematics and physics in
1990. Also, during his Paderborn years, he added the areas of communication problems
on graphs, parallel computation, and graph embedding to his research fields, with
remarkable contributions to the area of information dissemination in networks in
particular.
In 1994, Juraj became professor at Kiel University, where he stayed for three years.
He continued his work on parallel computation, systolic computation, and communi-
cation problems. One of Juraj’s most notable contributions from this time is the
monograph on communication complexity.
In 1997, Juraj was appointed to the chair of Computer Science 1 “Algorithms and
Complexity” at RWTH Aachen University, where he further broadened his research
interests, now including the theory of approximation algorithms and algorithmics for
hard problems. In particular, he established a new research area by introducing the
stability of approximation algorithms. He also became the head of the examiners board,
where he campaigned for fair examinations. His keen sense of fairness in dealing with
the administrative problems is still known among students from Aachen. When he
noticed the lack of algorithmic education at the schools of his daughters, or any school
for that matter, he started his project “Informatik für Kids” (Computer Science for
Kids). Furthermore, his ambition to write textbooks reached a new level.
Being an expert in the fields of both algorithms and education, it came to no surprise
that ETH Zurich asked him to take the chair for “Information Technology and
VIII Preface
Education.” Since 2004, Juraj has been working at ETH, bringing computer science to
schools (in Switzerland and far beyond), writing plenty of textbooks, and all the while
continuing research in his virtually unbounded field of expertise. On top of this, he
stayed active in several theoretical areas of computer science, and made important
contributions to reoptimization problems and to online algorithms with advice.
The very broad list of research areas hides the fact that there is one important
underlying interest in all of Juraj’s research: He is at all times investigating the
information needed to solve hard problems, measured both in a qualitative and
quantitative way. For example: How much information has to be exchanged between
automata that have to collaborate in solving one global question? How much infor-
mation is hidden inside the unknown input of online problems? What is the impact of
additional information, e.g., an optimal solution of a neighboring instance or the dis-
tance to an easy instance, on the hardness of optimization problems? What is the gain
of information by using nondeterministic steps instead of deterministic algorithms to
solve hard problems? Or, in Juraj’s words: “We are investigating the information
content of problems.” Through his textbooks, Juraj passes on his deep insight into the
structure of problems and their solutions, thus becoming a source of inspiration and
motivation for his readers.
Looking back, Juraj authored and co-authored over 200 publications, including 20
monographs and textbooks (some of them in several languages: English, German,
Russian, Japanese, Slovak, Spanish). He supervised 20 PhD dissertations and two
habilitations, is managing editor of the Journal of Interconnection Networks and editor
of several high-level international journals, co-chair and organizer of prestigious
international symposia, and member of many program committees and several steering
committees of international conferences. In addition, more than 20 invited talks at
international conferences and over 100 invited talks in different institutions illustrate
his international reputation. Juraj’s work is also honored by the following selected list
of awards and memberships: First Class Pribina Cross State Award of the Slovak
Republic, State Award of the Slovak Republic “Goodwill Envoy,” member of Aca-
demia Europaea, member of Slovak Academic Society, and First Award of the Slovak
Literature Foundation for scientific literature.
The aforementioned list of achievements covers only the tip of a mountain of work
Juraj did and is doing. When working closely with Juraj, it becomes more and more
mysterious how he manages to do all of this at once. A somewhat widely accepted yet
not formally proven theory states that Juraj is in fact not a single person, but twins;
twins that both sleep two hours a week at most. But jokes aside, it should be mentioned
that, even though his workload is so extremely high, no one has ever witnessed him
being in a bad mood, not spreading his underlying infectious optimism – and this while
writing a number of textbooks per year that would constitute a very successful research
career were they replaced (instead of accompanied) by research papers.
Still, Juraj’s reputation and standing among the computer science community only
became fully visible to us when we received the overwhelming feedback from his
colleagues regarding our question as to whether they would like to contribute to this
book. We never expected to receive positive answers by almost everyone we asked;
and it was taken very seriously to contribute something – and that was our major
condition – that Juraj would find truly interesting.
Preface IX
One unifying fact about Juraj is not apparent from the above list of facts: his
ambition for mountain trailing, which he started already in his early days in Bratislava.
This urge to reach any mountain top reflects his ambition to solve hard computational
problems or to tackle any other problem. When approaching such hard problems, one
has to focus on them – as Juraj does – with an open mind and without disturbance. To
this end, Juraj organizes his mountain workshops, where – often successful – attempts
to solve hard problems are carried out and combined – often successfully – with
mountain hiking and climbing; Juraj’s enthusiastic affection inspires others – always
successfully – to follow him and his ambition.
As we have just outlined in a very vague and highly incomplete way, since the
beginning of his career, Juraj has been working on a large number of different areas of
computer science, being an active member of many research communities. Therefore,
this book is subdivided into three parts, namely, “Automata and Formal Languages,”
“Algorithmics,” and “Computer Science Education.” We could have easily added
further parts, including communication complexity, network algorithms, alpine hiking,
and many more.
Dear Juraj
This book is for you; a very small “thank you,” compared to your caring, friendship,
smiles, support, ideas, research discussions, and simply the privilege of knowing you.
We wish you all the best from our hearts — and many more theoretical and real
mountains to climb.
Acknowledgement
We would like to thank Peter Widmayer for supporting us from the start, and Alfred
Hofmann from Springer for his support in realizing this project. We are also very
grateful to Ingrid Zámečníková for the inspiring illustration on this book’s cover and
Jan Lichtensteiger, who took the portrait photo of Juraj displayed at the beginning of
this book. Moreover, we are very thankful to Elisabet Burjons, Fabian Frei, Christos
Kapoutsis, Tobias Kohn, Rastislav Královič, Tobias Mömke, Britta Peis, Giovanni
Serafini, and Stefan Wolf, who all helped us enormously in reviewing the papers. Last
but not least, we would like to thank once again all the people who have contributed to
this book.
Harry Buhrman
I met Juraj in Aachen where he invited me to give a seminar talk in the late 1990’s on
quantum communication complexity, a topic that I had just ventured into and had
written a survey paper on. I did not know that Juraj was intimately familiar with the
topic of classical communication complexity. Nor did I know he had written a thick
book on the topic. Something that happened more often in my encounters with Juraj: he
had already written a textbook on topics we discussed. Polite and modest, Juraj’s subtle
and friendly gesture was to congratulate me on my survey and send me a copy of his
book. My visit to Juraj’s group in Aachen was very inspiring, his genuine interest in
my research and our mutual interest in theoretical computer science made me instantly
comfortable around him.
During that visit Juraj also sparked my interest in the educational side of science
and of computer science in particular. Also in this field he had already made deep and
important contributions, as well as written several books and texts. This inspired me to
try and teach some of his material in the elementary school where my kids were going
to in Amsterdam. I was able to teach twice a semester to kids in the ages of 7–9 years
old. What a wonderful and rewarding experience this was. Unfortunately I could not
find enough time to keep this up. But I noticed that computer science eduction in the
Netherlands is far behind that of Germany and Switzerland.
After Juraj moved to the ETH in Zurich I visited him several times and we dis-
covered another joint interest: the mountains! Also here Juraj was doing amazing iron
man like competitions that I did not even know were possible. Running for 100 km or
more on one day in the mountains. Nevertheless, Juraj always organised a small and
energetic hike in one of the afternoons. For me these trips were always very special
with a mix of science, eduction and hiking. I hope to have many more in the future.
I know now it is time to continue in Juraj’s spirit and set up a program for teaching
quantum computing and quantum physics and quantum computer science in elemen-
tary schools and high schools. Quantum mechanics appears to be very counterintuitive
to most of us. This may very well be because we are not used to quantum mechanical
effects, like, e.g., superposition and entanglement, because we never encounter them in
our everyday life, nor in our early eduction. It might be that teaching quantum
mechanics to very young kids takes away the counterintuitive aspects and gives them
an intuitive understanding that people who get acquainted with quantum physics at a
later age will not be able to develop. I hope to get as much advice as I can from Juraj on
this!
Informatics is Not Just for Engineers
Hans Hinterberger
This is a good occasion to sum up some impressions that accumulated over time.
First, many academics at ETH appreciate it that during the past years Juraj as the
chair of Information Technology and Education at the Department of Computer Sci-
ence invested a lot of time and a great amount of energy into an effective teaching of
informatics. And the members of the department were thankful that the messages were
carried out into the public at large.
Most important, however, is the realization that groundbreaking actions were
necessary and that this fact has been communicated. Actions that lead to proper
instruction in informatics at all schooling levels up to and including high school
(“Gymnasium”). This is extremely important as instructors at ETH still have to spend
way too much time teaching students elementary concepts of informatics. Contrary to
many “reformers,” Juraj’s efforts did not stop at talking about the problems, but he
initiated work on them and gave life to the ABZ with all its associated activities. In
doing this, a path was laid out that lead to many successes, but not always without
hindrance.
Second, it made life for many people much easier when Juraj, at the time of Walter
Gander’s retirement, accepted one of the orphaned groups into his chair of Information
Technology and Education. Furthermore, it was really great that through this the
support my PhD students and postdocs were able to continue after their boss also
retired, which allowed them to do further work in their field of specialization.
Third, Juraj’s efforts to ensure that retired members of the department can continue
to use office space and infrastructure are greatly appreciated. It allows them to stay in
contact and makes it possible to provide support should the need arise.
Dear Juraj: Congratulations to your sixtieth birthday. May the years to come bring
you all the best and good health. Many happy returns. It has always been a pleasure to
work and stay in contact with you. I truly hope that this can and will continue in this
spirit.
Reflections of Juraj’s First Graduate Student
Dana Pardubská
We met each other when we both were students – I was in the second, Juraj in the fifth
grade. When I was finishing my Master’s degree, I joined his selective course. I cannot
remember exactly the name, something like “Selected Topics in Informatics”; this was
the proper lecture at the right time. Every week some area and/or result were introduced
to us. He used to explain us the relevance of information and the related proof tech-
niques. This lecture affected me the most during my studies. I was affected not only by
the content, but also by his approach to the subject and to us, his students. I am thankful
for helping me to discover the beauty of theoretical computer science and also for being
my Diploma and Doctoral advisor.
I am not the only one who remembers with pleasure on our workshop in Štrba –
cross country skiing during the day and research in the evening. He collected a group of
mostly young people from different fields and let them talk about their work. Probably
only later on we appreciated the importance of these meetings and evening discussions
which brought us knowledge and motivation from different areas.
These are memories of times when Juraj was still in Slovakia. Then he left into the
world. He was at the University of Paderborn when I was finishing my PhD thesis.
I had a chance to see him interacting with his students and colleagues there. I have also
spent time with him and his family and have perceived also this side of his personality.
It was inspiring.
How did I perceive him? That time and now – large-minded, passionate, hard-
working, always willing to help. A visionary with his own view, with the ability to
recognize the important. Pacifying, encouraging. A hiker and runner with a smile on his
face. A friend.
He has achieved a lot of success, has written a lot of articles, books. He is engaged
in many activities concerning teaching of informatics, and many projects aimed at
helping students of various age groups to understand the history and foundations of
informatics. He was awarded many awards and guided many of his students and
colleagues in their personal and professional growth. Nevertheless he remained to be
the same Juraj, the same friend and a human with the capital “H”.
Happy birthday!
The Uniqueness of Being Juraj
Sarah Springman
Juraj is completely unique – the mould has been thrown away… he has “roots” and
“wings.” He is rooted in his passionate belief of the absolutely incontrovertible
imperative to educate all young people to think logically and to be able to program in
simple coding language. This is an essential contribution to levelling out access to, and
driving forward, modern educational opportunities in Switzerland. His many courses
attract children and students alike. They stimulate and engage people from all back-
grounds and both genders – as well as the parents and the occasional Federal Coun-
cillor (Bundesrat)! His conviction about the “right things to do” is incomparable. He
leads his close-knit team to that they soar with “wings”: a talent that he exhibits too
when he is scampering up to the top of any mountain and down again!
Happy Anniversary, Juraj, and “toi toi toi!” from Sarah Springman and team.
Reminiscences of Juraj as a Predecessor
and a Successor
Wolfgang Thomas
It is somewhat rare that two scientists share their time as colleagues in two different
institutions. As it happened, Juraj and I can serve as an example – we were colleagues
at two universities, in Kiel and in Aachen. I became acquainted with Juraj when I was
chairing an appointment committee in Kiel to fill a new position in theoretical computer
science. Well, it was not too difficult to see that he simply was the best candidate, and
so he came to Kiel and we enjoyed a most fruitful time as colleagues working in
complementary branches of theoretical computer science. That my high esteem for
Juraj had been right was confirmed five years later when Juraj got a call to head a chair
at the technical university of Aachen. Another two years later I went to Aachen myself,
now succeeding rather than preceding him. So our careers were nicely entangled, and
only when Juraj moved further to Zürich and towards the study of the educational
aspects of computer science, I had to follow his work from a distance. It is wonderful to
see that on the occasion of his 60th birthday the present Festschrift appears, docu-
menting his amazing scope of scientific work – and together with my sincere con-
gratulations I am sending Juraj all my best wishes for many years of continuation
of these activities – in the same productive and insightful way as we know it from the
past decades.
Hiking with Juraj
Erich Valkema
My first contact with Juraj Hromkovič was established in the eighties, when I was
asked to write a referee report on a paper of Juraj who at that time was living in
Czechoslovakia behind the iron curtain.
In the nineties Juraj became a member of the teaching staff of our computer science
department at Kiel University. Many students attended his lectures on different kinds of
algorithms, on communication complexity, on parallel computing, and many other
topics not only because of the interesting contents but also due to Juraj’s teaching
skills.
As his scientific and teaching merits will be appreciated much better by other
colleagues around the world, I will focus this short address on my personal experiences
with Juraj and his family when we stayed together at our department in Kiel.
During this time Juraj turned out to be not only a good colleague of high scientific
standing but he became beyond that a really true friend of mine. We enjoyed
ice-skating on lakes with both our families and hiking in the country-side around Kiel.
So on his 38th birthday we took a walk of 38 kilometers and I also remember quite well
two scientific meetings combined with mountain hiking in Austria with Juraj. I am
quite sure, that he is still able to walk as many kilometers per day as his age tells him.
I am very pleased that our good relationship did not end when Juraj moved away
from Kiel and is still flourishing and will hopefully do so for a long time to come.
For his 60th birthday my wife and I wish him and his family all the best.
Greetings from the Baltic Coast
Thomas Wilke
I got to know Juraj in 1994, when he became a professor at Kiel University. At the
time, I was a postdoc with Wolfgang Thomas. In 2004, I visited Juraj in Zürich as part
of my sabbatical.
Juraj has great ideas and is a diligent worker. He knows very well how to motivate
students and colleagues, simply by his very own enthusiasm for the subject matter
involved. In fact, although I was working on questions in logic in computer science in
1994, Juraj got me interested in a fundamental question on regular expressions and
finite-state automata. From the discussions with Juraj and Sebastian Seibert – at the
time one of Wolfgang Thomas’s PhD students – a joint paper resulted.
Juraj has a very sharp mind and strong opinions. This is what helped me often
enough to sharpen my own position on a topic. I am interested in teaching cryptog-
raphy; the book on this Juraj co-authored is what I consult first when I have new ideas
and want to see how they relate to what others have to say.
Juraj is very supportive. This is what I experienced at several stages of my own
academic life. On one occasion, when I was trying to set up a network for computer
science teachers in Schleswig-Holstein and foster computer science as a school subject,
Juraj agreed to come to Kiel, give a public talk, and engage in discussions with teachers
and schools, bringing in all his experience and excellence in this field.
A sixtieth birthday is a good occasion and a Festschrift is the perfect location to say
that it is good that Juraj has been around and is still around. I use this occasion to wish
Juraj a good life.
Contents
Prologue
Algorithmics
A Dynamic Distributed Data Structure for Top-k and k-Select Queries. . . . . . 311
Björn Feldkord, Manuel Malatyali, and Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide
Epilogue
1 Introduction
Uniformity, i.e., the fact that a single, finitely-described, device is used to process
instances of arbitrary size, is a central property shared by all computation mod-
els deemed feasible. Understanding the role this restriction plays in the inherent
limitations of feasible computation models is one of the fundamental directions in
theoretical computer science. Models that are naturally defined as non-uniform
(like circuits), usually come with uniformity as an add-on requirement, and the
uniform and non-uniform versions can be compared. Turing machines are nat-
urally uniform, and their non-uniform version was introduced in the seminal
paper of Karp and Lipton [5] in the form of advice machines. The machine,
together with the input word x of length n, is also provided an advice string
α(n), that does not need to be computable, but remains the same for all words
of length n. It is well known how fruitful the line of research investigating this
notion has been in understanding the fundamentals of computation. However,
since the main questions concerning Turing machines still remain unsolved, it
is natural to focus on their restricted versions for gaining better insight. While
there had been previous attempts to study non-uniform versions of automata
(e.g., Ibarra and Ravikumar [4] considered 2-way automata with growing sets of
states), Damm and Holzer [1] proposed the first model of finite automata with
advice along the lines of [5]: a one-tape finite automaton for which each input
word is prefixed by the advice string (see Definition 1). Since the advice is on the
same tape as the input, the automaton can use only constant advice. The class of
languages recognized by these devices is denoted REG/k where k is the length of
advice string, extending the notation REG for the class regular languages. Even
REG/1 can recognize some non-recursive languages (e.g., unary languages), and
there is a strict hierarchy REG/(k − 1) REG/k. In order to overcome the
limitation to constant amount of advice, Tadaki et al. [7] consider advice of
length n written on separate track (see Definition 2). We denote the class of
languages recognized by these automata REG/n to distinguish them from the
previous model. In [7] it is shown that REG/n = 1DLIN/O(n), i.e., the class of
languages recognized by a linear-time 1-tape deterministic Turing machine with
advice written on a separate track. Hence, the power of the Turing machine to
write information to the tape does not help in this case. The advice written on a
separate track overcomes the shortcomings of the model from [1], but it does not
allow to study other than linear size of advice. Freivalds [3], with the motiva-
tion to study the amount of nonconstructiveness in non-constructive arguments,
proposes a model of finite automata that use separate tapes to store the advice.
In his model (see Definition 3), the advice may be split into several tapes. How-
ever, the advice string of length m must be valid for all words of lengths up to
m. He considers deterministic automata with two-way input and advice tapes.
We denote the class of these languages F (DFA)/f (n). Freivalds shows that
F (DFA)/o(log n) = REG, but there are some non-recursive languages that can
be recognized with polylogarithmic advice. On the other hand F (DFA)/(n2n )
contains all languages, and there are languages that cannot be recognized with
advice o(2n ). We adopt the model by Küçük et al. [6] (see Definition 4) that com-
bines the models of Freivalds, and Tadaki et al. Denoted by L (DFA)/f (n), the
advice of length f (n) for a one-way deterministic FA is written on separate tapes
(in our results we consider only a single advice tape), and the advice is specific
for the inputs of given length. Küçük et al. showed that L (DFA)/exp(2w-input)
contains all languages, a hierarchy L (DFA)/(nk ) L (DFA)/(nk+1 ), and a sep-
aration L (DFA)/poly L (DFA)/poly(2w-input). They also showed that the
language of palindromes, LPAL ∈ L (DFA)/poly. They asked a question whether
exponential advice allows to recognize all languages (with one-way input), and,
in particular, whether LPAL ∈ L (DFA)/exp.
Determinism and Nondeterminism in Finite Automata with Advice 5
Our Contribution
We answer the question from [6], and show that LPAL cannot be recognized
by a DFA regardless of the advice size, i.e., LPAL ∈ L (DFA)/ (Corollary 1).
Moreover, we show that DFA cannot utilize more than exponential advice (The-
orem 3). Then we extend the model from [6] to nondeterministic FA, and show
that L (NFA)/exp contains all languages (Theorem 4). We also show that for
constant advice the nondeterminism doesn’t help, since L (NFA)/k = REG/k
(Theorem 5). Since NFA can recognize any language with exponential advice,
it is natural to ask which languages are in L (NFA)/poly. We show that
LPAL ∈ L (NFA)/poly (Corollary 2) whereas coLPAL ∈ L (NFA)/poly (The-
orem 8), so L (NFA)/poly is not closed under complement. Moreover, since
L (DFA)/ is obviously closed under complement, coLPAL is an example of a lan-
guage that can be recognized nondeterministically with polynomial advice, but
cannot be recognized deterministically regardless of the advice size. We extend
this observation to show that for any growing function f , there is a language
that can be recognized by a NFA with advice O(f (n)), but cannot be recognized
by DFA regardless of advice (Theorem 6). Further, we show that any bounded
language can be recognized by NFA with polynomial advice (Theorem 9), and
if the language is of the form L ⊆ a1 · · · ak , it can even be recognized deter-
ministically with polynomial advice (Theorem 10). Finally, we show a hierarchy
of advice lengths for NFA (Theorem 11), and even stronger result for sublinear
advice stating that for any advice of size f (n) ≤ n there is a language that can
be recognized by a DFA with advice f (n), but cannot be recognized by an NFA
with advice o(f (n)) (Theorem 12).
We adopt the approach from Küçük et al., where the advice is on separate
tapes (in general, we allow multiple advice tapes) and is specific for words of
given length:
3 Results
The model quickly becomes extremely powerful: with two advice tapes, or expo-
nential advice and 2-way input, all languages can be recognized. On the other
hand, a DFA cannot recognize some very simple languages even with fairly large
advice, and there is a hierarchy showing that additional advice size increases the
power. The following statements have been proven in [6]:
In this paper, we focus our attention on machines with one advice tape, and
1-way input tape. In [6], the authors asked if LPAL ∈ L (DFA)/. We show that
it is not the case. In fact, our proof applies not only to LPAL , but to a slightly
more general class of languages described in the following definition. Informally,
the words consist of two parts of fixed lengths: an arbitrary request string, and
a response. There may be several responses to a given request. The required
property is that for any two requests there is a string that is a valid response for
exactly one of them.
Before proving the theorem, let us introduce some notation. Let A be any
2-tape DFA with the set of states Q, where s := |Q|, and advice α. For a fixed n
we shall consider words of length n+f (n), and denote m := |α(n+f (n))|. For an
i ∈ {1, . . . , m} and a q ∈ Q, we say that A is in internal configuration (i, q) if the
advice head of A is reading the i-th advice symbol and A is in state q. We define
the internal configuration graph G of A as the graph whose vertices are (i, q) for
8 P. Ďuriš et al.
all such i, q. For each vertex (i, q), there are two outgoing directed edges, labelled
by symbols 0 and 1, respectively. Each of the edges may be additionally labelled
by +. These edges describe the behavior of A: An edge labelled by x ∈ {0, 1}
leads to (i , q ) such that A moves to internal configuration (i , q ) within one
computation step when the input head reads x. The edge is additionally labelled
by + if and only if A moves its input head in this step.
The internal configuration graph is completely defined by the transition func-
tion of A and the advice for input length n + f (n). Also, the behavior of A on
inputs of length n + f (n) is determined by the internal configuration graph.
When A is in internal configuration z = (i, q) and reads symbol x, it follows a
path in G induced by edges labelled by x which ends with an edge labelled by
x+, leading to internal configuration z and we say that x leads from z to z .
The definition of leads to can be naturally extended to words from Σ2 .
1. u = v,
2. neither u is prefix of v nor v is prefix of u,
3. 1 ≤ |u| ≤ 2s + 2, 1 ≤ |v| ≤ 2s + 2,
4. both u and v lead from z to the same internal configuration z .
Proof. Consider all words over Σ2 of length exactly 2s + 1. Each of these words
leads from z to some (j, ). Let w be such word where j is minimal. Consider
each proper prefix p of w, including the empty word ε; there are 2s + 1 of them.
Thus, we have w = pxg for some x ∈ Σ2 , g ∈ Σ2∗ (see Fig. 1). Since p is prefix of
w, it leads from (i, q) into (i , q ), where i ≤ i ≤ j. Let x = x ∈ Σ2 . The word
px g leads from (i, j) via (i , q ) to (j , ), where j ≥ j. Thus, some edge outgoing
from some (j, ) is used by A when reading px g0. Let w be the longest prefix
of px g0 such that an edge like this is used when reading the last symbol of w .
It holds that px is a prefix of w . This ensures that any two w constructed for
different prefixes p are not a prefix of each other.
In this way, we have constructed 2s + 1 different words w1 , . . . , w2s+1
and
any two of them satisfy conditions 1, 2, and 3. Since there are only 2s edges
outgoing from (j, ), we can apply the pigeonhole principle to find wa and wb
which use the same outgoing edge. This implies that wa and wb lead from z to
the same internal configuration z .
Proof (of Theorem 2). Let n := 4(s + 1)2 . We prove that there are two input
words of length n + f (n), one in L and one not in L, which are both either
accepted or rejected by A.
Automaton A starts in internal configuration (1, q0 ). We construct a sequence
of internal configurations c0 = (1, q0 ), c1 , . . . , c2s+2 by invoking the claim to get
the next configuration from the previous one. In this way, we obtain, for each i,
some ui and vi satisfying all conditions from the claim that both lead from ci−1
to ci . We now have 2s + 2 pairs ui , vi . For each pair, ||ui | − |vi || ≤ 2s + 1. Our
goal is to construct two different words of length at most 4(s + 1)2 that lead
Determinism and Nondeterminism in Finite Automata with Advice 9
Fig. 1. Situation in the proof of Lemma 1: the word w = pxg leads to some configu-
ration (j, ). The word px g leads to some (j , ) for j ≥ j. Hence some prefix of px g
uses an edge outgoing from some (j, ). In the proof we use the words px g0 to cover
the case j = j.
from (1, q0 ) to the same internal configuration. We consider two cases. First, if
|ui | = |vi | for some i, we can take u1 u2 . . . ui and u1 u2 . . . ui−1 vi . Both such words
have equal length, lead from (1, q0 ) to ci , and their length is at most 4(s + 1)2 .
In the second case, |ui | = |vi | for all i ∈ {1, . . . , 2s + 2}. By the pigeonhole
principle, there are two pairs such that ||ui | − |vi || = ||uj | − |vj ||. Without loss
of generality, let |ui | > |vi | and |uj | > |vj |. Then the words u1 . . . uj−1 vj and
u1 . . . ui−1 vi ui+1 . . . uj satisfy our condition.
Thus, we have some two different words of equal length, no longer than
n = 4(s + 1)2 , that lead from (1, q0 ) to the same internal configuration. We
can arbitrary pad both words to have length exactly n to obtain u = v such
that |u| = |v| = n that lead from the initial internal configuration to the same
internal configuration. Since L is prefix-sensitive, there is a y ∈ Σ f (n) such that
uy ∈ L and vy ∈ L, or vy ∈ L and uy ∈ L. However, uy and vy are either both
accepted or both rejected by A.
Proof. Let A be an s-state DFA with advice α recognizing some language L with
advice using alphabet Σk for some k, and let = sks + 1. We show that L can
be recognized by A using advice of length less than (nk n + 1) = 2O(n) .
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The Devil thumbs a ride. By RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. 6 reels. ©
1Mar47; L924. RKO General, Inc. (PWH); 3May74; R575632.
R575633.
Code of the West. By RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. 6 reels. © 12Feb47;
L925. RKO General, Inc. (PWH); 3May74; R575633.
R575634.
Banjo. By RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. 7 reels. © 23Apr47; L987.
RKO General, Inc. (PWH); 3May74; R575634.
R575635.
Born to kill. By RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. 10 reels. © 19Apr47;
L988. RKO General, Inc. (PWH); 3May74; R575635.
R575636.
A Likely story. By RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. 10 reels. © 30Apr47;
L1068. RKO General, Inc. (PWH); 3May74; R575636.
R576592.
Stallion road. By Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. 10 reels. ©
12Apr47; L933. United Artists Television, Inc. (PWH); 10May74;
R576592.
R576593.
A Boy and his dog. By Vitaphone Corporation. 2 reels. © 22Apr47;
L961. United Artists Television, Inc. (PWH); 10May74; R576593.
R576594.
Abusement park. By Paramount Pictures, Inc. 1 reel. © 25Apr47;
L1006. United Artists Television, Inc. (PWH); 10May74; R576594.
R576595.
Love and learn. By Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. 9 reels. ©
3May47; L1010. United Artists Television, Inc. (PWH); 10May74;
R576595.
R576596.
Scent - imental over you. By the Vitaphone Corporation. 1 reel. ©
3Apr47; M1934. United Artists Television, Inc. (PWH); 10May74;
R576596.
R576597.
Birth of a notion. By the Vitaphone Corporation. 1 reel. © 4Apr47;
M1960. United Artists Television, Inc. (PWH); 10May74; R576597.
R576618.
Pursued. By Hemisphere Films, Inc. 11 reels. © 8Mar47; L1108.
Richard Feiner and Company, Inc. (PWH); 10May74; R576618.
R576619.
Paramount news. No. 69. By Paramount Pictures, Inc. 1 reel. ©
26Apr47; M2038. Major News Library (PWH); 10May74; R576619.
R576620.
Paramount news. No. 70. By Paramount Pictures, Inc. 1 reel. ©
30Apr47; M2039. Major News Library (PWH); 10May74; R576620.
R576621.
Paramount news. No. 71. By Paramount Pictures, Inc. 1 reel. ©
3May47; M2070. Major News Library (PWH); 10May74; R576621.
R576622.
Paramount news. No. 72. By Paramount Pictures, Inc. 1 reel. ©
7May47; M2071. Major News Library (PWH); 10May74; R576622.
R576809.
News of the day. Vol. 18, issue no. 259. By Hearst Metrotone News,
Inc. 1 reel. © 2Apr47; M2046. Hearst Metrotone News, a division of
the Hearst Corporation (PWH); 10May74; R576809.
R576810.
News of the day. Vol. 18, issue no. 260. By Hearst Metrotone
News, Inc. 1 reel. © 4Apr47; M2047. Hearst Metrotone News, a
division of the Hearst Corporation (PWH); 10May74; R576810.
R576811.
News of the day. Vol. 18, issue no. 261. By Hearst Metrotone News,
Inc. 1 reel. © 8Apr47; M2048. Hearst Metrotone News, a division of
the Hearst Corporation (PWH); 10May74; R576811.
R576812.
News of the day. Vol. 18, issue no. 262. By Hearst Metrotone
News, Inc. 1 reel. © 11Apr47; M2049. Hearst Metrotone News, a
division of the Hearst Corporation (PWH); 10May74; R576812.
R576813.
News of the day. Vol. 18, issue no. 263. By Hearst Metrotone News,
Inc. 1 reel. © 16Apr47; M2050. Hearst Metrotone News, a division of
the Hearst Corporation (PWH); 10May74; R576813.
R576814.
News of the day. Vol. 18, issue no. 264. By Hearst Metrotone
News, Inc. 1 reel. © 18Apr47; M2051. Hearst Metrotone News, a
division of the Hearst Corporation (PWH); 10May74; R576814.
R576815.
News of the day. Vol. 18, issue no. 265. By Hearst Metrotone News,
Inc. 1 reel. © 23Apr47; M2066. Hearst Metrotone News, a division of
the Hearst Corporation (PWH); 10May74; R576815.
R576816.
News of the day. Vol. 18, issue no. 266. By Hearst Metrotone
News, Inc. 1 reel. © 25Apr47; M2067. Hearst Metrotone News, a
division of the Hearst Corporation (PWH); 10May74; R576816.
R576817.
News of the day. Vol. 18, issue no. 267. By Hearst Metrotone News,
Inc. 1 reel. © 30Apr47; M2068. Hearst Metrotone News, a division
of the Hearst Corporation (PWH); 10May74; R576817.
R577226.
Cynthia. By Loew’s, Inc. 10 reels. © 14May47; L1011. Metro
Goldwyn Mayer, Inc. (PWH); 17May74; R577226.
R577227.
Dark delusion. By Loew’s, Inc. 9 reels. © 14May47; L1012. Metro
Goldwyn Mayer, Inc. (PWH); 17May74; R577227.
R577228.
The Romance of Rosy Ridge. By Loew’s, Inc. 11 reels. © 14May47;
L1019. Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Inc. (PWH); 17May74; R577228.
R577229.
Red hot rangers. By Loew’s, Inc. 1 reel. © 14May47; L1027. Metro
Goldwyn Mayer, Inc. (PWH); 17May74; R577229.
R577329.
Paramount news. No. 73. By Paramount Pictures, Inc. 1 reel. ©
10May47; M2085. Major News Library (PWH); 16May74; R577329.
R577330.
Paramount news. No. 74. By Paramount Pictures, Inc. 1 reel. ©
14May47; M2086. Major News Library (PWH); 16May74; R577330.
R577411.
Wife wanted. By Monogram Pictures Corporation. 8 reels. ©
14Oct46; L639. Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, formerly known
as Monogram Pictures Corporation (PWH); 20May74; R577411.
R577412.
Beauty and the bandit. By Monogram Pictures Corporation. 8
reels. © 28Oct46; L654. Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, formerly
known as Monogram Pictures Corporation (PWH); 20May74;
R577412.
R577413.
Bringing up father. By Monogram Pictures Corporation. 8 reels. ©
27Oct46; L657. Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, formerly known
as Monogram Pictures Corporation (PWH); 20May74; R577413.
R577414.
Gentleman Joe Palooka. By Monogram Pictures Corporation. 8
reels. © 14Oct46; L660. Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, formerly