Asymptotic approximation by regular languages

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DOI10.1007/978-3-030-67731-2_6zbMATH Open1490.68129arXiv2008.01413OpenAlexW3127872916MaRDI QIDQ831785FDOQ831785

Ryoma Sin'ya

Publication date: 24 March 2022

Abstract: This paper investigates a new property of formal languages called REG-measurability where REG is the class of regular languages. Intuitively, a language (L) is REG-measurable if there exists an infinite sequence of regular languages that "converges" to (L). A language without REG-measurability has a complex shape in some sense so that it can not be (asymptotically) approximated by regular languages. We show that several context-free languages are REG-measurable (including languages with transcendental generating function and transcendental density, in particular), while a certain simple deterministic context-free language and the set of primitive words are REG-immeasurable in a strong sense.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01413





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