Conjunctive Grammars and Systems of Language Equations

  • Authors:
  • A. S. Okhotin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing and Information Science, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L3N6 okhotin@cs.queensu.ca

  • Venue:
  • Programming and Computing Software
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper studies systems of language equations that are resolved with respect to variables and contain the operations of concatenation, union and intersection. Every system of this kind is proved to have a least fixed point, and the equivalence of these systems to conjunctive grammars is established. This allows us to obtain an algebraic characterization of the language family generated by conjunctive grammars.