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Are "germ" automata studied?

I've been exploring the idea of a nondeterministic continuous automaton based on germs: Two functions $f,g: \mathbb{R} \to S$ have the same right germ at $x$ if there is some interval $[x,a)$ on which …
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First-order logics expressively equivalent to the computable languages

There is a really nice theorem that the subsets of $(\Sigma^*, =_{el}, \preceq, (S_a)_{a \in \Sigma})$ definable in first-order logic are exactly the regular sets. Where: $\Sigma^*$ is the set of fin …
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Corollaries of Kleene's Theorem (Regular Languages)

Kleene's theorem that finite automata (specifically, nondeterministic) are expressively equivalent to regular expressions seems to be a powerful and not immediately obvious tool for untangling the sta …
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Name for the theory of words with equal length, prefix, successors

I've worked with this theory for a while, but I've never been quite sure what to call it: $$(\Sigma^*, =_{el}, \preceq, (S_a)_{a \in \Sigma})$$ Where $\Sigma^*$ is the set of finite words on finite a …
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