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Complete system of equivalent transformations for two-tape automata with disjoint loops

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Two-tape automata are considered such that their transition diagrams do not have intersecting loops. A system of equivalent transformations is described for these automata, and its completeness with respect to the set of the transformations is proved.

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Podlovchenko, R.I., Khachatryan, V.E. & Chashin, Y.G. Complete system of equivalent transformations for two-tape automata with disjoint loops. Program Comput Soft 26, 237–248 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02759317

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