Valid identity problem for shuffle regular expressions

  • Authors:
  • Albert R. Meyer;Alexander Rabinovich

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, MA;Department of Computer Science, The Sackler School of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We show that the following problem is decidable: given are expressions E1 and E2 constructed from variables by the regular operations and shuffle. Is the identity E1 = E2 true for all instantiations of its variables by formal languages?