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State Complexity of Two Combined Operations: Reversal-Catenation and Star-Catenation

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2010-06-25 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we show that, due to the structural properties of the resulting automaton obtained from a prior operation, the state complexity of a combined operation may not be equal but close to the mathematical composition of the state complexities of its component operations. In particular, we provide two witness combined operations: reversal combined with catenation and star combined with catenation.

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@article{arxiv.1006.4646,
  title  = {State Complexity of Two Combined Operations: Reversal-Catenation and Star-Catenation},
  author = {Bo Cui and Yuan Gao and Lila Kari and Sheng Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.4646},
  year   = {2010}
}

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20 pages, 7 figures