On varieties of literally idempotent languages

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KLÍMA Ondřej POLÁK Libor

Year of publication 2008
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications
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Faculty of Science

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Field Information theory
Keywords literal idempotence; varieties of languages
Description A language $L\subseteq A^*$ is literally idempotent in case that $ua^2v\in L$ if and only if $uav\in L$, for each $u,v\in A^*$, $a\in A$. Such classes result naturally by taking all literally idempotent languages in a classical (positive) variety or by considering a certain closure operator on classes of languages. We initiate their systematic study. Various classes of such languages can be characterized using syntactic methods. A starting example is the class of all finite unions of $B^*_1 B^*_2\dots B^*_k$ where $B_1,\dots,B_k$ are subsets of a given alphabet $A$.
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