Iterating Inverse Binary Transducers
Klaus Sutner, Kevin Lewi · Journal of automata, languages and combinatorics · 2012
We study iterated transductions defined by a class of inverse transducers over the binary alphabet. The transduction semigroups of these automata turn out to be free Abelian groups and the orbits of finite words can be described as affine subspaces in a suitable geometry defined by the generators of these groups. We show that iterated transductions are rational for a subclass of our automata.