English

The state complexity of star-complement-star

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2012-03-27 v1

Abstract

We resolve an open question by determining matching (asymptotic) upper and lower bounds on the state complexity of the operation that sends a language L to (c(L*))*, where c() denotes complement.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1203.5353,
  title  = {The state complexity of star-complement-star},
  author = {Galina Jiraskova and Jeffrey Shallit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.5353},
  year   = {2012}
}
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