Computing forbidden words of regular languages

  • Authors:
  • Marie-Pierre Béal;Maxime Crochemore;Filippo Mignosi;Antonio Restivo;Marinella Sciortino

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut Gaspard-Monge, Université de Marne-la-Vallée, 77454 Marne-la-Vallée Cedex 2, France;Institut Gaspard-Monge, Université de Marne-la-Vallée, 77454 Marne-la-Vallée Cedex 2, France;Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni, Università di Palermo, Via Archirafi 34, 90123 Palermo, Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni, Università di Palermo, Via Archirafi 34, 90123 Palermo, Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni, Università di Palermo, Via Archirafi 34, 90123 Palermo, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae - Computing Patterns in Strings
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We give a quadratic-time algorithm to compute the set of minimal forbidden words of a factorial regular language. We give a linear-time algorithm to compute the minimal forbidden words of a finite set of words. This extends a previous result given for the case of a single word only. We also give quadratic-time algorithms to check whether a regular language is factorial or anti-factorial.