State Complexity of Combined Operations for Prefix-Free Regular Languages

  • Authors:
  • Yo-Sub Han;Kai Salomaa;Sheng Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • Intelligence and Interaction Research Center, KIST, Cheongryang, Seoul, Korea;School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada K7L 3N6;Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada N6A 5B7

  • Venue:
  • LATA '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We investigate the state complexity of combined operations for prefix-free regular languages. Prefix-free minimal deterministic finite-state automata have a unique structural property that plays an important role to obtain the precise state complexity of basic operations. Based on the same property, we establish the precise state complexity of four combined operations: star-of-union, star-of-intersection, star-of-reversal and star-of-catenation.