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On Some Complexity Results for Even Linear Languages

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2024-01-26 v1 Computational Complexity Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

We deal with a normal form for context-free grammars, called Dyck normal form. This normal form is a syntactical restriction of the Chomsky normal form, in which the two nonterminals occurring on the right-hand side of a rule are paired nonterminals. This pairwise property, along with several other terminal rewriting conditions, makes it possible to define a homomorphism from Dyck words to words generated by a grammar in Dyck normal form. We prove that for each context-free language L, there exist an integer K and a homomorphism phi such that L=phi(D'_K), where D'_K is a subset of D_K and D_K is the one-sided Dyck language over K letters. As an application we give an alternative proof of the inclusion of the class of even linear languages in AC1.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2401.14303,
  title  = {On Some Complexity Results for Even Linear Languages},
  author = {Liliana Cojocaru},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.14303},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

16 pages, no figure. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1512.09207

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