Recognizable picture languages and polyominoes

  • Authors:
  • Giusi Castiglione;Roberto Vaglica

  • Affiliations:
  • Università di Palermo, Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Palermo, Italy;Università di Palermo, Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Palermo, Italy

  • Venue:
  • CAI'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Algebraic informatics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We consider the problem of recognizability of some classes of polyominoes in the theory of picture languages. In particular we focus our attention on the problem posed by Matz of finding a nonrecognizable picture language for which his technique for proving the non-recognizability of picture languages fails. We face the problem by studying the family of L-convex polyominoes and some closed families that are similar to the recognizable family of all polyominoes but result to be non-recognizable. Furthermore we prove that the family of L-convex polyominoes satisfies the necessary condition given by Matz for the recognizability and we conjecture that the family of L-convex polyominoes is non-recognizable.