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Quantum automata and algebraic groups. (English) Zbl 1124.81004
Summary: We show that several problems which are known to be undecidable for probabilistic automata become decidable for quantum finite automata. Our main tool is an algebraic result of independent interest: we give an algorithm which, given a finite number of invertible matrices, computes the Zariski closure of the group generated by these matrices.

##### MSC:
 81P68 Quantum computation 68Q45 Formal languages and automata 20G15 Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields
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