Undecidability of state complexity




Arto Salomaa, Kai Salomaa, Sheng Yu

PublisherTAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

2013

International Journal of Computer Mathematics

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER MATHEMATICS

INT J COMPUT MATH

6

90

6

1310

1320

11

0020-7160

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1080/00207160.2012.704994



We consider the state complexity of compositions of regularity-preserving language operations. As our main result, we establish that determining the state complexity of an operation composed just from intersections and marked concatenations is undecidable. The proof relies on the undecidability of Hilbert's Tenth Problem. The languages used in the construction are over a fixed alphabet with at most 50 letters. We also consider some implications and generalizations, as well as discuss open problems.




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