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String grammars with disconnecting

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Fundamentals of Computation Theory (FCT 1985)

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The complexity of languages generated by context-free grammars with disconnecting is investigated. It is shown that even linear and deterministic context-free languages can generate languages of multisets, the membership problem of which is NP-complete. In contrast to that, this problem is in DSPACE(log n) for regular sets.

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  1. Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Hamburg, Rothenbaumch. 67/9, D-2000, Hamburg 13, FRG

    Klaus-Jörn Lange

  2. Institutes for Information Processing Technical University of Graz and Austrian Computer Society, Schießstattgasse 4a, A-8010, Graz, Austria

    Emo Welzl

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Lange, KJ., Welzl, E. (1985). String grammars with disconnecting. In: Budach, L. (eds) Fundamentals of Computation Theory. FCT 1985. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 199. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0028809

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