Greibach Normal Form in Algebraically Complete Semirings

  • Authors:
  • Zoltán Ésik;Hans Leiß

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CSL '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop and 11th Annual Conference of the EACSL on Computer Science Logic
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We give inequational and equational axioms for semirings with a fixed-point operator and formally develop a fragment of the theory of context-free languages. In particular, we show that Greibach's normal form theorem depends only on a few equational properties of least pre-fixed-points in semirings, and elimination of chain- and deletion rules depend on their inequational properties (and the idempotency of addition). It follows that these normal form theorems also hold in non-continuous semirings having enough fixed-points.