Minimization via duality

Bezhanishvili, N. and Kupke, Clemens and Panangaden, Prakash; Ong, Luke and de Queiroz, Ruy, eds. (2012) Minimization via duality. In: Logic, Language, Information and Computation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7456 . Springer, ARG, pp. 191-205. ISBN 9783642326202 (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32621-9_14)

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Abstract

We show how to use duality theory to construct minimized versions of a wide class of automata. We work out three cases in detail: (a variant of) ordinary automata, weighted automata and probabilistic automata. The basic idea is that instead of constructing a maximal quotient we go to the dual and look for a minimal subalgebra and then return to the original category. Duality ensures that the minimal subobject becomes the maximally quotiented object.