Syntactic Complexities of Six Classes of Star-Free Languages
Abstract
The syntactic complexity of a regular language is the cardinality of its syntactic semi-group. The syntactic complexity of a subclass of regular languages is the maximal syntactic complexity of languages in that subclass, taken as a function of the state complexity n of these languages. We study the syntactic complexity of six subclasses of star-free languages. We find a tight upper bound of (n−1)! for finite/cofinite and re-verse definite languages, and a lower bound of ⌊e·(n−1)!⌋ for definite languages, where e is the base of the natural logarithms. We also find tight upper bounds for languages accepted by monotonic, partially monotonic and “nearly monotonic” automata. All these bounds are significantly lower than the bound nn for arbitrary regular languages. Also, witness languages reaching these bounds require alphabets that grow with n. The syntactic complexity of arbitrary star-free languages remains open.
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Janusz Brzozowski, Baiyu Li, David Liu
(2012).
Syntactic Complexities of Six Classes of Star-Free Languages. UWSpace.
http://hdl.handle.net/10012/12625
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