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Decision Problems on Copying and Shuffling

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2026-04-08 v4

Abstract

We study decision problems of the form: given a regular or linear context-free language LL, is there a word of a given fixed form in LL, where given fixed forms are based on word operations copy, marked copy, shuffle and their combinations.

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@article{arxiv.2302.06248,
  title  = {Decision Problems on Copying and Shuffling},
  author = {Vesa Halava and Tero Harju and Dirk Nowotka and Esa Sahla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.06248},
  year   = {2026}
}
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