A Simple Undecidable Problem: The Inclusion Problem for Finite Substitutions on ab*c

  • Authors:
  • Juhani Karhumäki;Leonid P. Lisovik

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • STACS '01 Proceedings of the 18th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

As an evidence of the power of finite unary substitutions we show that the inclusion problem for finite substitutions on the language L = ab*c is undecidable, i.e. it is undecidable whether for two finite substitutions ϕ and Ψ the relation ϕ(w) ⊆ (w) holds for all w in L.