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Yet another proof of Parikh's Theorem

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2022-10-07 v1

Abstract

Parikh's Theorem says that the Parikh image of a context-free language is semilinear. We give a short proof of Parikh's Theorem using the formulation of Verma, Seidl, and Schwentick in terms of Presburger arithmetic. The proof relies on an Eulerian property of derivation trees of context-free languages and was inspired by Hierholzer's algorithm; it does not use the Chomsky normal form.

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@article{arxiv.2210.02925,
  title  = {Yet another proof of Parikh's Theorem},
  author = {Manfred Kufleitner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.02925},
  year   = {2022}
}