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On jump-deterministic pushdown automata

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The realtime one-state deterministic pushdown automata with jumps define the family of deterministic languages. A simplified regularity test for deterministic languages can be derived from this fact.

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Courcelle, B. On jump-deterministic pushdown automata. Math. Systems Theory 11, 87–109 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01768471

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