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Atoms and partial orders of infinite languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2002

Werner Kuich  and
N. W. Sauer
Werner Kuich
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, 1040 Wien, Austria; (kuich@tuwien.ac.at)
N. W. Sauer
Affiliation:
University of Calgary, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 2500 University Dr. NW. Calgary Alberta Canada T2N1N4; (nsauer@math.ucalgary.ca)
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Abstract

We determine minimal elements, i.e., atoms, in certain partial orders of factor closed languages under ⊆. This is in analogy to structural Ramsey theory which determines minimal structures in partial orders under embedding.

Keywords

Combinatorics of wordsstructural Ramsey theory.
Type
Research Article
Information
RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , July 2001 , pp. 389 - 401
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 2001

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