Two-way metalinear PC grammar systems and their descriptional complexity

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Meduna

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, Božetěchova 2, Brno 61266, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • Acta Cybernetica
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Besides a derivation step and a communication step, a two-way PC grammar system can make a reduction step during which it reduces the right-hand side of a context-free production to its left hand-side. This paper proves that every non-unary recursively enumerable language is defined by a centralized two-way grammar system, Γ, with two metalinear components in a very economical way. Indeed, Γ's master has only three nonterminals and one communication production; furthermore, it produces all sentential forms with no more than two occurrences of nonterminals. In addition, during every computation, Γ makes a single communication step. Some variants of two-way PC grammar systems are discussed in the conclusion of this paper.