Title
Nondeterministic Descriptional Complexity of Regular Languages
Abstract
We investigate the descriptional complexity of operations on finite and infinite regular languages over unary and arbitrary alphabets. The languages are represented by nondeterministic finite automata (NFA). In particular, we consider Boolean operations, catenation operations -- concatenation, iteration, -free iteration -- and the reversal. Most of the shown bounds are tight in the exact number of states, i.e. the number is sucient and necessary in the worst case. Otherwise tight bounds in the...
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1142/S0129054103002199
Int. J. Found. Comput. Sci.
Keywords
Field
DocType
nondeterministic finite automata,regular language
Discrete mathematics,Generalized nondeterministic finite automaton,Combinatorics,Nondeterministic finite automaton,Nondeterministic algorithm,Unary operation,Deterministic finite automaton,Concatenation,Regular language,Catenation,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
14
6
79
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.91
9
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Markus Holzer113812.30
Martin Kutrib277889.77