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Repetition-Free Derivability from a Regular Grammar is NP-Hard

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2016-02-24 v2 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We prove the NP-hardness of the problem whether a given word can be derived from a given regular grammar without repeated occurrence of any nonterminal.

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@article{arxiv.1602.05555,
  title  = {Repetition-Free Derivability from a Regular Grammar is NP-Hard},
  author = {Jochen Burghardt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.05555},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Technical report; 13 pages; 6 figures