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Finer characterization of bounded languages described by GF(2)-grammars

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2023-12-12 v1

Abstract

GF(2)-grammars are a somewhat recently introduced grammar family that have some unusual algebraic properties and are closely connected to unambiguous grammars. In "Bounded languages described by GF(2)-grammars", Makarov proved a necessary condition for subsets of a1a2aka_1^* a_2^* \cdots a_k^* to be described by some GF(2)-grammar. By extending these methods further, we prove an even stronger upper bound for these languages. Moreover, we establish a lower bound that closely matches the proven upper bound. Also, we prove the exact characterization for the special case of linear GF(2)-grammars. Finally, by using the previous result, we show that the class of languages described by linear GF(2)-grammars is not closed under GF(2)-concatenation

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@article{arxiv.2312.06609,
  title  = {Finer characterization of bounded languages described by GF(2)-grammars},
  author = {Vladislav Makarov and Marat Movsin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.06609},
  year   = {2023}
}

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