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Polynomial languages with finite antidictionaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2008

Arseny M. Shur*
Affiliation:
Ural State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia; Arseny.Shur@usu.ru
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Abstract

We tackle the problem of studying which kind of functions can occur as complexity functions of formal languages of a certain type. We prove that an important narrow subclass of rational languages contains languages of polynomial complexity of any integer degree over any non-trivial alphabet.

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Research Article
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 2008

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