Factorizations of languages and commutativity conditions
Representations of languages as a product (catenation) of languages are investigated, where the factor languages are "prime", that is, cannot be decomposed further in a nontrivial manner. In general, such prime decompositions do not necessarily exist. If they exist, they are not necessaril...
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Format: | Article |
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2002
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Series: | Acta cybernetica
15 No. 3 |
Kulcsszavak: | Számítástechnika, Kibernetika |
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Online Access: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/12682 |
Summary: | Representations of languages as a product (catenation) of languages are investigated, where the factor languages are "prime", that is, cannot be decomposed further in a nontrivial manner. In general, such prime decompositions do not necessarily exist. If they exist, they are not necessarily unique - the number of factors can vary even exponentially. The paper investigates prime decompositions, as well as the commuting of the factors, especially for the case of finite languages. In particular, a technique about commuting is developed in Section 4, where the factorization of languages L1 and L2 is discussed under the assumption L1L2 = L2L1. |
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Physical Description: | 339-351 |
ISSN: | 0324-721X |