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We investigate the conversion of one-way nondeterministic finite automata and context-free grammars into Parikh equivalent one-way and two-way deterministic finite automata, from a descriptional complexity point of view. We prove that for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Giovanna J. Lavado , Giovanni Pighizzini , Shinnosuke Seki

In 1973, Greibach ("The hardest context-free language", SIAM J. Comp., 1973) constructed a context-free language $L_0$ with the property that every context-free language can be reduced to $L_0$ by a homomorphism, thus representing it as an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Mikhail Mrykhin , Alexander Okhotin

Nonterminal complexity of a context-free language is the smallest possible number of nonterminals in its generating grammar. While in general case nonterminal complexity computation problem is unsolvable, it can be computed for different…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Dmitry Golubenko

We find algebraic conditions on a group equivalent to the position of its Diophantine problem in the Chomsky Hierarchy. In particular, we prove that a finitely generated group has a context-free Diophantine problem if and only if it is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Vladimir Yankovskiy

In this paper, we prove decidability properties and new results on the position of the family of languages generated by (circular) splicing systems within the Chomsky hierarchy. The two main results of the paper are the following. First, we…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-07 Jean Berstel , Luc Boasson , Isabelle Fagnot

It is known that hyperedge replacement grammars are similar to string context-free grammars in the sense of definitions and properties. Therefore, we expect that there is a generalization of the well-known Greibach normal form from string…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Tikhon Pshenitsyn

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 study distributional learning of context-free languages under a fixed recognizable congruence $\sim_h$ given as the kernel of an explicit finite monoid homomorphism $h:\Sigma^*\to M$. For this fixed-$h$ setting, we develop a finite typed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Takayuki Kuriyama

Let G be a context-free grammar with a total alphabet V, and let F be a final language over an alphabet W such that W is a subset of V. A final sentential form is any sentential form of G that, after omitting symbols from V - W, it belongs…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Tomáš Kožár , Zbyněk Křivka , Alexander Meduna

Weighted automata model quantitative aspects of systems like the consumption of resources during executions. Traditionally, the weights are assumed to form the algebraic structure of a semiring, but recently also other weight computations…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Manfred Droste , Heiko Vogler

We consider the cyclic closure of a language, and its generalisation to the operators $C^k$ introduced by Brandst\"adt. We prove that the cyclic closure of an indexed language is indexed, and that if $L$ is a context-free language then…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Tara Brough , Laura Ciobanu , Murray Elder

In this work, we establish a direct connection between supplemented Dyck language and the signed expectation value of chains of second quantization operators relatively to the physical vacuum and relatively to a one-determinant state.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Jérémy Morere , Thibaud Etienne

We prove that the closure of the one-sided Dyck language in a free monoid is a two-sided Dyck language.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Rita Gitik , Eliyahy Rips

We introduce context-free languages of morphisms in monoidal categories, extending recent work on the categorification of context-free languages, and regular languages of string diagrams. Context-free languages of string diagrams include…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Matt Earnshaw , Mario Román

For a language $L$, we consider its cyclic closure, and more generally the language $C^k(L)$, which consists of all words obtained by partitioning words from $L$ into $k$ factors and permuting them. We prove that the classes of ET0L and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Tara Brough , Laura Ciobanu , Murray Elder , Georg Zetzsche

We study a class of rational Dyck paths with slope (2m+1)/2 corresponding to factor-free Dyck words, as introduced by P. Duchon. We show that, for the slopes considered in this paper, the language of factor-free Dyck words is generated by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Daniel Birmajer , Juan B. Gil , Michael D. Weiner

A new family of categorial grammars is proposed, defined by enriching basic categorial grammars with a conjunction operation. It is proved that the formalism obtained in this way has the same expressive power as conjunctive grammars, that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Stepan L. Kuznetsov , Alexander Okhotin

We investigate commutative images of languages recognised by register automata and grammars. Semi-linear and rational sets can be naturally extended to this setting by allowing for orbit-finite unions instead of only finite ones. We prove…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Piotr Hofman , Marta Juzepczuk , Sławomir Lasota , Mohnish Pattathurajan

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…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Manfred Kufleitner

In this article, we define general normal forms for any logic that has propositional part and whose non-propositional connectives distribute over the finite disjunctions. We do not require the non-propositional connectives to be closed on…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Mohamed Khaled