How statement and proof provenance work
The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.
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Every DFA is an NFA
Statement
Let be a DFA. Then there is an NFA over the same alphabet with .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A DFA .
By Deterministic finite automata, for each the DFA has exactly one next state .
By Acceptance of a word by a DFA and the recognized language, a word is accepted by exactly when the DFA run from on ends in a state of .
By Acceptance of a word by an NFA and the recognized language, a word is accepted by an NFA exactly when the reachable state set after reading meets its accepting set.
Proof
Define an NFA by for and for every state . Step [L1] makes this well-defined, and has the same states, start state, and accepting states as .
We claim that for every state and every word , the NFA reachable set from on is the singleton containing the DFA state reached from on . This is proved by induction on : for there are no -moves, so the reachable set is ; for , the NFA applies the same one-letter transition as the DFA and then again has no -moves.
By step 2.1 and [L2], a word reaches an accepting DFA state exactly when the NFA reachable set on contains an accepting state. By [L3], this is exactly the NFA acceptance condition, so .
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Sources
- Jean Gallier and Jocelyn Quaintance, Introduction to the Theory of Computation: Some Notes for CIS511 (standard reference, not scraped)
- John Watrous, Introduction to the Theory of Computing, Lecture 3: Nondeterministic finite automata (standard reference, not scraped)