A star operation for star-free trace languages

  • Authors:
  • Edward Ochmański;Krystyna Stawikowska

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun and Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland;Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun

  • Venue:
  • DLT'07 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Developments in language theory
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The paper deals with star-free languages in trace monoids. We define a constrained star operation, named star-free star, and show a new characterisation of star-free trace languages, using this operation instead of complement. We obtain this characterisation combining a star-free star characterisation for word languages and logical characterisation of trace languages (Ebinger/Muscholl). Moreover, some new, simple proofs of known results are presented in the paper.