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The state complexity of a regular language is the number of states in a minimal deterministic finite automaton accepting the language. The syntactic complexity of a regular language is the cardinality of its syntactic semigroup. The…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Janusz A. Brzozowski , Marek Szykuła , Yuli Ye

A non-empty word $w$ is a border of the word $u$ if $\vert w\vert<\vert u\vert$ and $w$ is both a prefix and a suffix of $u$. A word $u$ with the border $w$ is closed if $u$ has exactly two occurrences of $w$. A word $u$ is privileged if…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Josef Rukavicka

The ambiguity of a nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) N for input size n is the maximal number of accepting computations of N for an input of size n. For all k, r 2 N we construct languages Lr,k which can be recognized by NFA's with…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-02 Juraj Hromkovic , Georg Schnitger

We prove that every $n$-letter word over $k$-letter alphabet contains some word as a subsequence in at least $k^{n/4k(1+o(1))}$ many ways, and that this is sharp as $k\to\infty$. For fixed $k$, we show that the analogous number deviates…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Boris Bukh , Aleksandre Saatashvili

We prove the existence of a ternary sequence of factor complexity $2n+1$ for any given vector of rationally independent letter frequencies. Such sequences are constructed from an infinite product of two substitutions according to a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Julien Cassaigne , Sébastien Labbé , Julien Leroy

Current lexical simplification approaches rely heavily on heuristics and corpus level features that do not always align with human judgment. We create a human-rated word-complexity lexicon of 15,000 English words and propose a novel neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Mounica Maddela , Wei Xu

These lecture notes provide an introduction to combinatorics on words and its interactions with dynamics, algebra, and arithmetic. The central theme is the notion of low factor complexity for infinite words. We investigate the following…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Mélodie Andrieu

This paper deals with the problem of recognizability of functions l: Sigma* --> M that map words to values in the support set M of a monoid (M,.,1). These functions are called M-languages. M-languages are studied from the aspect of their…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-12 José Ramón González de Mendívil , Federico Fariña

The state complexity, respectively, nondeterministic state complexity of a regular language $L$ is the number of states of the minimal deterministic, respectively, of a minimal nondeterministic finite automaton for $L$. Some of the most…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Arto Salomaa , Kai Salomaa , Taylor J. Smith

In this paper we explore fundamental concepts in computational complexity theory and the boundaries of algorithmic decidability. We examine the relationship between complexity classes \textbf{P} and \textbf{NP}, where $L \in \textbf{P}$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Duaa Abdullah , Jasem Hamoud

In this paper we study the maximal pattern complexity of infinite words up to Abelian equivalence. We compute a lower bound for the Abelian maximal pattern complexity of infinite words which are both recurrent and aperiodic by projection.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Teturo Kamae , Steven Widmer , Luca Q. Zamboni

Several popular language models represent local contexts in an input text $x$ as bags of words. Such representations are naturally encoded by a sequence graph whose vertices are the distinct words occurring in $x$, with edges representing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Sammy Khalife , Yann Ponty , Laurent Bulteau

In this paper, we study a series of algorithmic problems related to the subsequences occurring in the strings of a given language, under the assumption that this language is succinctly represented by a grammar generating it, or an automaton…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas , Tore Koß , Florin Manea , Robert Mercaş , Timo Specht

We present an algorithm which computes the Lempel-Ziv factorization of a word $W$ of length $n$ on an alphabet $\Sigma$ of size $\sigma$ online in the following sense: it reads $W$ starting from the left, and, after reading each $r =…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-03 Tatiana Starikovskaya

A word $w$ is concise in a class of groups $\mathcal{C}$ if, for every group $G$ in $\mathcal{C}$, the verbal subgroup $w(G)$ is finite whenever $w$ takes only finitely many values in $G$. This notion can be naturally extended to…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Martina Conte , Jan Moritz Petschick

The state complexity of a regular language is the number of states in the minimal deterministic automaton accepting the language. The syntactic complexity of a regular language is the cardinality of its syntactic semigroup. The syntactic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-19 Janusz Brzozowski , Yuli Ye

This paper is the extended version of On the Complexity of Infinite Advice Strings (ICALP 2018). We investigate a notion of comparison between infinite strings. In a general way, if M is a computation model (e.g. Turing machines) and C a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Gaëtan Douéneau-Tabot

We prove lower bounds on the length of regular expressions for finite languages by methods from arithmetic circuit complexity. First, we show a reduction: the length of a regular expression for a language $L\subseteq \{0,1\}^n$ is bounded…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Ehud Cseresnyes , Hannes Seiwert

Let w be a group word. It is conjectured that if w has only countably many values in a profinite group G, then the verbal subgroup w(G) is finite. In the present paper we confirm the conjecture in the cases where w is a multilinear…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Eloisa Detomi , Marta Morigi , Pavel Shumyatsky

G. Fici proved that a finite word has a minimal suffix automaton if and only if all its left special factors occur as prefixes. He called LSP all finite and infinite words having this latter property. We characterize here infinite LSP words…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Gwenaël Richomme