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The Borel hierarchy is infinite in the class of regular sets of trees

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Skurczyński, J. (1989). The Borel hierarchy is infinite in the class of regular sets of trees. In: Csirik, J., Demetrovics, J., Gécseg, F. (eds) Fundamentals of Computation Theory. FCT 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 380. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51498-8_40

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