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A sharpening of the Parikh mapping

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 July 2002

Alexandru Mateescu ,
Arto Salomaa ,
Kai Salomaa  and
Sheng Yu
Alexandru Mateescu
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Academiei 14, Bucharest, Romania; (alexmate@pcnet.pcnet.ro)
Arto Salomaa
Affiliation:
Turku Centre for Computer Science, Lemminkäisenkatu 14, 20520 Turku, Finland; (asalomaa@utu.fi)
Kai Salomaa
Affiliation:
Department of Computing and Information Science, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada; (ksalomaa@cs.queensu.ca)
Sheng Yu
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada; (syu@csd.uwo.ca)
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Abstract

In this paper we introduce a sharpening of the Parikh mapping and investigate its basic properties. The new mapping is based on square matrices of a certain form. The classical Parikh vector appears in such a matrix as the second diagonal. However, the matrix product gives more information about a word than the Parikh vector. We characterize the matrix products and establish also an interesting interconnection between mirror images of words and inverses of .

Keywords

Formal languagesParikh mappingscattered subwords.
Type
Research Article
Information
RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 35 , Issue 6: A tribute to Aldo de Luca , November 2001 , pp. 551 - 564
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 2001

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