Title
The size of Higman-Haines sets
Abstract
We show that for the family of Church-Rosser languages the Higman-Haines sets, which are the sets of all scattered subwords of a given language and the sets of all words that contain some word of a given language as a scattered subword, cannot be effectively constructed, although both these sets are regular for any language. This nicely contrasts the result on the effectiveness of the Higman-Haines sets for the family of context-free languages. The non-effectiveness is based on a non-recursive trade-off result between the language description mechanism of Church-Rosser languages and the corresponding Higman-Haines sets, which in turn is also valid for all supersets of the language family under consideration, and in particular for the family of recursively enumerable languages. Finally for the family of regular languages we prove an upper and a matching lower bound on the size of the Higman-Haines sets in terms of nondeterministic finite automata.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1016/j.tcs.2007.07.036
Theor. Comput. Sci.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
scattered subword,language family,recursively enumerable language,Church-Rosser language,language description mechanism,corresponding Higman-Haines set,Higman-Haines set,context-free language,non-recursive trade-off result,regular language
Conference
387
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0304-3975
14
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.81
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hermann Gruber118513.28
Markus Holzer213812.30
Martin Kutrib377889.77