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In the context of learning formal languages, data about an unknown target language L is given in terms of a set of (word,label) pairs, where a binary label indicates whether or not the given word belongs to L. A (polynomial-size)…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 S. Mahmoud Mousawi , Sandra Zilles

Unsupervised text style transfer aims at training a generative model that can alter the style of the input sentence while preserving its content without using any parallel data. In this paper, we employ powerful pre-trained large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Huiyu Mai , Wenhao Jiang , Zhihong Deng

We introduce the notion of a Bishop topological group i.e., a group X equipped with a Bishop topology of functions F such that the group operations of X are Bishop morphisms with respect to F. A closed subset in the neighborhood structure…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Iosif Petrakis

A pointwise definable model is one in which every object is definable without parameters. In a model of set theory, this property strengthens V=HOD, but is not first-order expressible. Nevertheless, if ZFC is consistent, then there are…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-06-20 Joel David Hamkins , David Linetsky , Jonas Reitz

We define a set of binary matrices where any two of them can not be placed one on the other in a way such that the corresponding entries coincide. The rows of the matrices are obtained by means of Dyck words. The cardinality of the set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Elena Barcucci , Antonio Bernini , Stefano Bilotta , Andrea Lattanzi , Renzo Pinzani

We study the family of rational sets of words, called completely reducible and which are such that the syntactic representation of their characteristic series is completely reducible. This family contains, by a result of Reutenauer, the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Dominique Perrin

We entirely classify definable sets up to definable bijections in $\mathbb{Z}$-groups, where the language is the one of ordered abelian groups. From this, we deduce, among others, a classification of definable families of bounded definable…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Raf Cluckers , Immanuel Halupczok

In this note we present a new construction of the string group that ends optionally in two different contexts: strict diffeological 2-groups or finite-dimensional Lie 2-groups. It is canonical in the sense that no choices are involved; all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-18 Konrad Waldorf

We revisit the notion of initial sets by Xu and Cayrol, i.e., non-empty minimal admissible sets in abstract argumentation frameworks. Initial sets are a simple concept for analysing conflicts in an abstract argumentation framework and to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Matthias Thimm

Using the theory of Properly Embedded Graphs developed in an earlier work we define an involutory duality on the set labeled non-crossing trees that lifts the obvious duality in the set of unlabeled non-crossing trees. The set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Nikos Apostolakis

A mixed Steiner system MS$(t,k,Q)$ is a set (code) $C$ of words of weight $k$ over an alphabet $Q$, where not all coordinates of a word have the same alphabet size, each word of weight $t$, over $Q$, has distance $k-t$ from exactly one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Tuvi Etzion

Two results on palindromicity of bi-infinite words in a finite alphabet are presented. The first is a simple, but efficient criterion to exclude palindromicity of minimal sequences and applies, in particular, to the Rudin-Shapiro sequence.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Michael Baake

A 3-simplex is a collection of four sets A_1,...,A_4 with empty intersection such that any three of them have nonempty intersection. We show that the maximum size of a set system on n elements without a 3-simplex is $2^{n-1} +…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-26 Michael E. Picollelli

The number of zeros and the number of ones in a binary string are referred to as the composition of the string, and the prefix-suffix compositions of a string are a multiset formed by the compositions of the prefixes and suffixes of all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zitan Chen

A prefix code L satisfies the condition that no word of L is a proper prefix of another word of L. Recently, Ko, Han and Salomaa relaxed this condition by allowing a word of L to be a proper prefix of at most k words of L, for some `margin'…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Stavros Konstantinidis

In this paper, we study product-free subsets of the free semigroup over a finite alphabet $A$. We prove that the maximum density of a product-free subset of the free semigroup over $A$, with respect to the natural measure that assigns a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-13 Imre Leader , Shoham Letzter , Bhargav Narayanan , Mark Walters

Consider the set of those binary words with no non-empty factors of the form $xxx^R$. Du, Mousavi, Schaeffer, and Shallit asked whether this set of words grows polynomially or exponentially with length. In this paper, we demonstrate the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-26 James D. Currie , Narad Rampersad

A closed word (a.k.a. periodic-like word or complete first return) is a word whose longest border does not have internal occurrences, or, equivalently, whose longest repeated prefix is not right special. We investigate the structure of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Golnaz Badkobeh , Gabriele Fici , Zsuzsanna Lipták

We study bispecial factors in fixed points of morphisms. In particular, we propose a simple method of how to find all bispecial words of non-pushy circular D0L-systems. This method can be formulated as an algorithm. Moreover, we prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Karel Klouda

We study subshift that arise by excluding words of length two from Dyck shifts. The words that are to be excluded are taken from a finite set that is not literal-uniform.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-05-22 Kokoro Inoue , Wolfgang Krieger