Publication details
On decidability of intermediate levels of concatenation hierarchies
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Developments in Language Theory : 19th International Conference, DLT 2015, Liverpool, UK, July 27-30, 2015, Proceedings |
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| Citation | |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21500-6_4 |
| Field | General mathematics |
| Keywords | quantifier alternation hierarchy of first-order logic; concatenation hierarchy of regular languages; pseudovariety of ordered monoids; membership problem |
| Description | It is proved that if definability of regular languages in the Sigma_n fragment of the first-order logic on finite words is decidable, then it is decidable also for the Delta_{n+1} fragment. In particular, the decidability for Delta_5 is obtained. More generally, for every concatenation hierarchy of regular languages, it is proved that decidability of one of its half levels implies decidability of the intersection of the following half level with its complement. |
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