A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Equality sets for recursively enumerable languages




AuthorsHalava V, Harju T, Hoogeboom HJ, Latteux M

PublisherEDP SCIENCES S A

Publication year2005

Journal:RAIRO: Informatique Théorique et Applications / RAIRO: Theoretical Informatics and Applications

Journal name in sourceRAIRO-THEORETICAL INFORMATICS AND APPLICATIONS

Journal acronymRAIRO-THEOR INF APPL

Volume39

Issue4

First page 661

Last page675

Number of pages15

ISSN0988-3754

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1051/ita:2005035


Abstract
We consider shifted equality sets of the form E-G(a, g(1), g(2)) = {w | g(1)( w) = ag(2)( w)}, where g(1) and g(2) are nonerasing morphisms and a is a letter. We are interested in the family consisting of the languages h(E-G( J)), where h is a coding and E-G(J) is a shifted equality set. We prove several closure properties for this family. Moreover, we show that every recursively enumerable language L subset of A* is a projection of a shifted equality set, that is, L = pi(A)(E-G(a, g(1), g(2))) for some ( nonerasing) morphisms g(1) and g(2) and a letter a, where pi(A) deletes the letters not in A. Then we deduce that recursively enumerable star languages coincide with the projections of equality sets.


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