Rational index of bounded-oscillation languages
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
2020-12-08 v1
Abstract
The rational index of a context-free language is a function , such that for each regular language recognized by an automaton with states, the intersection of and is either empty or contains a word shorter than . It is known that the context-free language (CFL-)reachability problem and Datalog query evaluation for context-free languages (queries) with the polynomial rational index is in NC, while these problems is P-complete in the general case. We investigate the rational index of bounded-oscillation languages and show that it is of polynomial order. We obtain upper bounds on the values of the rational index for general bounded-oscillation languages and for some of its previously studied subclasses.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2012.03567,
title = {Rational index of bounded-oscillation languages},
author = {Ekaterina Shemetova and Alexander Okhotin and Semyon Grigorev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.03567},
year = {2020}
}