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Some canonic forms of splicing derivations are introduced and the notion of ω-splicing is used for proving that H systems with a finite number of splicing rules and a regular set of axioms generate regular languages.
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Manca, V. (2000). Splicing Normalization and Regularity. In: Finite Versus Infinite. Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0751-4_13
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