Structure of the minimal automaton of a numeration language

peer reviewedWe study the structure of automata accepting the greedy representations of N in a wide class of numeration systems. We describe the conditions under which such automata can have more than one strongly connected component and the form of any such additional components. Our characterization applies, in particular, to any automaton arising from a Bertrand numeration system. Furthermore, we show that for any automaton A arising from a system with a dominant root beta>1, there is a morphism mapping A onto the automaton arising from the Bertrand system associated with the number beta