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Caterpillar dualities and regular languages

Combinatorics 2013-07-23 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We characterize obstruction sets in caterpillar dualities in terms of regular languages, and give a construction of the dual of a regular family of caterpillars. We show that these duals correspond to the constraint satisfaction problems definable by a monadic linear Datalog program with at most one EDB per rule.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1203.1347,
  title  = {Caterpillar dualities and regular languages},
  author = {Péter L. Erdős and Claude Tardif and Gábor Tardos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.1347},
  year   = {2013}
}
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