State Complexity of Catenation Combined with Star and Reversal

This paper is a continuation of our research work on state complexity of combined operations. Motivated by applications, we study the state complexities of two particular combined operations: catenation combined with star and catenation combined with reversal. We show that the state complexities of...

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Main Authors: Bo Cui, Yuan Gao, Lila Kari, Sheng Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2010-08-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1008.1648v1
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Summary:This paper is a continuation of our research work on state complexity of combined operations. Motivated by applications, we study the state complexities of two particular combined operations: catenation combined with star and catenation combined with reversal. We show that the state complexities of both of these combined operations are considerably less than the compositions of the state complexities of their individual participating operations.
ISSN:2075-2180