Bottom-up rewriting is inverse recognizability preserving

  • Authors:
  • Irène Durand;Géraud Sénizergues

  • Affiliations:
  • LaBRI, Université Bordeaux, Talence cedex, France;LaBRI, Université Bordeaux, Talence cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • RTA'07 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Term rewriting and applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

For the whole class of linear term rewriting systems, we define bottom-up rewriting which is a restriction of the usual notion of rewriting. We show that bottom-up rewriting effectively inverse-preserves recognizability and analyze the complexity of the underlying construction. The Bottom-Up class (BU) is, by definition, the set of linear systems for which every derivation can be replaced by a bottom-up derivation. Membership to BU turns out to be undecidable; we are thus lead to define more restricted classes: the classes SBU(k), k ∈ N of Strongly Bottom-Up(k) systems for which we show that membership is decidable. We define the class of Strongly Bottom-Up systems by SBU = Uk∈N SBU(k). We give a polynomial sufficient condition for a system to be in SBU. The class SBU contains (strictly) several classes of systems which were already known to inverse preserve recognizability.