A complete system of B-rational identities

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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0758.00017.] Recently we solved two conjectures of \textit{J. H. Conway} [Regular algebras and finite machines, Chapman \& Hall (1971; Zbl 0231.94041)]: a) the monoid identities completed with two other identities from a complete systems, and b) the system obtained by only considering the identities associated with the finite groups is equivalent to the system associated with the finite monoids. Proving then the completeness of them and hence giving the first ``good described complete identities systems for usual rational expressions. The proofs of these results will be published in [\textit{D. Krob}, Theor. Comput. Sci. 89, No. 2, 207-343 (1991; Zbl 0737.68053)]. The paper is essentially a presentation of the methods we used in [\textit{D. Krob}, loc. cit.] to obtain our results. Since the proofs of the main theorems are quite long, we just sketch them here and we refer to [\textit{D. Krob}, loc. cit.] for the complete proofs. It is also to be noticed that the techniques we developed (specially our proof of theorem III.2 restricted to aperiodic semigroups) permitted us to give a new proof of Schützenberger's classical characterization of star-free languages [cf. \textit{G. Lallement}, Combinatorial semigroups theory, Wiley (1979); \textit{J. E. Pin}, Variétés de langages formels,Masson (1984; Zbl 0636.68093); \textit{M. P. Schutzenberger}, Inform. and Control 8, 190-194 (1965)].











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