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Piecewise testable tree languages

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2015-07-01 v2

Abstract

This paper presents a decidable characterization of tree languages that can be defined by a boolean combination of Sigma_1 sentences. This is a tree extension of the Simon theorem, which says that a string language can be defined by a boolean combination of Sigma_1 sentences if and only if its syntactic monoid is J-trivial.

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@article{arxiv.1208.5129,
  title  = {Piecewise testable tree languages},
  author = {Mikołaj Bojańczyk and Luc Segoufin and Howard Straubing},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.5129},
  year   = {2015}
}
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