Deleting string rewriting systems preserve regularity
Deleting string rewriting systems preserve regularity
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删除字符串重写系统保留规律性
DOI:
10.1016/j.tcs.2004.04.009
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发表时间:
2004
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通讯作者:
Johannes Waldmann
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作者:
D. Hofbauer;Johannes Waldmann
A string rewriting system is called deleting if there exists a partial ordering on its alphabet such that each letter in the right-hand side of a rule is less than some letter in the corresponding left-hand side. We show that the rewrite relation induced by a deleting system can be represented as the composition of a finite substitution (into an extended alphabet), a rewrite relation of an inverse context-free system (over the extended alphabet), and a restriction (to the original alphabet). Here, a system is called inverse context-free if the length of the right-hand side of any rule does not exceed one. The decomposition result directly implies that deleting systems preserve regularity, and that inverse deleting systems preserve context-freeness. The latter result was already obtained by Hibbard (J. ACM 21(3) (1974) 446–453).