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The Subset Construction

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Automata and Computability

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Formal Definition of Nondeterministic Finite Automata A nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) is a five-tuple

$$N = \left( {Q,\sum , \Delta ,S,F} \right),$$

where everything is the same as in a deterministic automaton, except for the following two differences.

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Kozen, D.C. (1997). The Subset Construction. In: Automata and Computability. Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1844-9_6

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