State complexity of union and intersection of square and reversal on k regular languages

  • Authors:
  • Yuan Gao;Lila Kari;Sheng Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we continue our study on the state complexity of combined operations on regular languages. We study the state complexities of @?"i"="1^kL"i^2, @?"i"="1^kL"i^2, @?"i"="1^kL"i^R, and @?"i"="1^kL"i^R, for regular languages L"i, 1@?i@?k, k=2. We obtain the exact bounds for these combined operations and show that the state complexities of @?"i"="1^kL"i^2 and @?"i"="1^kL"i^2 are the same as the mathematical compositions of the state complexities of their component individual operations, while, on the other hand, the state complexities of @?"i"="1^kL"i^R and @?"i"="1^kL"i^R are lower than the corresponding mathematical compositions.