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In this note we investigate the languages obtained by intersecting slender regular or context-free languages with the set of all primitive words over the common alphabet. We prove that these languages are also regular and, respectively, context-free. The statement does not hold anymore for either regular or context-free languages. Moreover, the set of all non-primitive words of a slender context-free language is still context-free. Some possible directions for further research are finally discussed.
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Dömösi, P., Martín-Vide, C., Mitrana, V. (2004). Remarks on Sublanguages Consisting of Primitive Words of Slender Regular and Context-Free Languages. In: Karhumäki, J., Maurer, H., Păun, G., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Theory Is Forever. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3113. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27812-2_6
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