Discussion of non-deterministic automata as 1-dimensional defect TQFTs:
Paul Gustafson, Mee Seong Im, Remy Kaldawy, Mikhail Khovanov, Zachary Lihn, Automata and one-dimensional TQFTs with defects, Letters in Mathematical Physics 113 (2023), no. 5, Paper No. 93, 38 pp. [arXiv:2301.00700]
Paul Gustafson, Mee Seong Im, Mikhail Khovanov, Boolean TQFTs with accumulating defects, sofic systems, and automata for infinite words, Letters in Mathematical Physics 114 (2024), no. 6, Paper No. 135, 35 pp. [arXiv:2312.17033]
Mee Seong Im, Mikhail Khovanov, From finite state automata to tangle cobordisms: a TQFT journey from one to four dimensions, Contemporary Mathematics 817 (2025) 179-220 [arXiv:2309.00708]
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