More on the power of chain rules in context-free grammars (Q759487)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3881892
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    More on the power of chain rules in context-free grammars
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3881892

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      More on the power of chain rules in context-free grammars (English)
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      For all \(\epsilon >0\) we prove for every sufficiently large n: there exists a context-free language \(CL_ n\) with the following properties: (a) \(CL_ n\) has a cfg of size O(n). (b) Each chain rule free cfg for \(CL_ n\) has size \(\Omega (\epsilon^ 3n^{3/2-\epsilon}).\)
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      size reduction
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      context-free language
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