A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

On Shuffling a Word with its Letter-to-Letter Substitution




AuthorsHalava Vesa, Harju Tero, Sahla Esa

PublisherIOS PRESS

Publication year2020

JournalFundamenta Informaticae

Journal name in sourceFUNDAMENTA INFORMATICAE

Journal acronymFUND INFORM

Volume175

Issue1-4

First page 201

Last page206

Number of pages6

ISSN0169-2968

eISSN1875-8681

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3233/FI-2020-1954


Abstract
Denote by ш the operation of interleaving, or shuffling, of words. We prove that, given a regular language R and a letter-to-letter morphism φ, it is undecidable whether or not there exists a word ω such that ω ш φ(ω) ∩ R ≠ ø.



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