Unrestricted State Complexity of Binary Operations on Regular Languages
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
2016-06-14 v3
Abstract
I study the state complexity of binary operations on regular languages over different alphabets. It is well known that if and are languages restricted to be over the same alphabet, with and quotients, respectively, the state complexity of any binary boolean operation on and is , and that of the product (concatenation) is . In contrast to this, I show that if and are over their own different alphabets, the state complexity of union and symmetric difference is , that of intersection is , that of difference is , and that of the product is .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1602.01387,
title = {Unrestricted State Complexity of Binary Operations on Regular Languages},
author = {Janusz Brzozowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.01387},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
13 pages, 6 figures. An earlier version is to appear in the proceedings of DCFS 2016. Two errors are corrected in the present arXiv version