Descendants of a recognizable tree language for sets of linear monadic term rewrite rules

  • Authors:
  • Sándor Vágvölgyi

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Foundations of Computer Science, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

For a tree language L and a set S of term rewrite rules over Σ, the descendant of L for S is the set S* (L) of trees reachable from a tree in L by rewriting in S. For a recognizable tree language L, we study the set D(L) of descendants of L for all sets of linear monadic term rewrite rules over Σ. We show that D(L) is finite. For each tree automaton A over Σ, we can effectively construct a set {R1,...,Rk} of linear monadic term rewrite systems over Σ such that D(L(A)) = {R1*(L(A)),...,RK*(L(A))} and for any 1 ≤ i j ≤ k, Ri*(L(A)) ≠ Rj*(L(A)).