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Equational axioms for regular sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2009

S. L. Bloom  and
Z. Ésik
S. L. Bloom
Affiliation:
Computer Science Department, Stevens Institute of Technology, Castle Point, Hoboken, NJ 07030
Z. Ésik
Affiliation:
Computer Science Department, A. József University, Szeged, Aradi v. tere 1, 6720 Hungary
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Abstract

We show that, aside from the semiring equations, three equations and two equation schemes characterize the semiring of regular sets with the Kleene star operation.

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Research Article
Information
Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1993 , pp. 1 - 24
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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