Issue |
RAIRO-Theor. Inf. Appl.
Volume 36, Number 2, April/June 2002
Fixed Points in Computer Science (FICS'01)
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Page(s) | 129 - 153 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/ita:2002007 | |
Published online | 15 December 2002 |
A Fully Equational Proof of Parikh's Theorem
1
(asic esearch in omputer cience, Centre of the Danish
National Research Foundation),
Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University,
Fr. Bajersvej 7E, 9220 Aalborg Ø, Denmark;
luca@cs.auc.dk.
2
Department of Computer Science,
University of Szeged, P.O. Box 652, 6701 Szeged, Hungary.
We show that the validity of Parikh's theorem for context-free languages depends only on a few equational properties of least pre-fixed points. Moreover, we exhibit an infinite basis of μ-term equations of continuous commutative idempotent semirings.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 03C05 / 16Y60 / 68Q70
Key words: Parikh's theorem / commutative context-free languages / commutative rational languages / equational logic / varieties / complete axiomatizations / commutative idempotent semirings / algebraically complete commutative idempotent semi rings.
© EDP Sciences, 2002
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