Parikh's Theorem in Commutative Kleene Algebra

  • Authors:
  • Mark W. Hopkins;Dexter C. Kozen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • LICS '99 Proceedings of the 14th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Parikh's Theorem says that the commutative image of every context free language is the commutative image of some regular set. Pilling has shown that this theorem is essentially a statement about least solutions of polynomial inequalities. We prove the following general theorem of commutative Kleene algebra, of which Parikh's theorem is a special case: Every system of polynomial inequalities fi(x1,...,xn) \mathxi, 1 \mathi \math, over a commutative Kleene algebra K has a unique least solution in Kn; moreover, the components of the solution are given by polynomials in the coefficients of the fi. We also give a closed-form solution in terms of the Jacobian of the system.