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Cyclic languages and strongly cyclic languages

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We prove that cyclic languages are the boolean closure of languages called strongly cyclic languages. The result is used to give another proof of the rationality of the zeta function of rational cyclic languages.

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Claude Puech Rüdiger Reischuk

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Béal, M.P., Carton, O., Reutenauer, C. (1996). Cyclic languages and strongly cyclic languages. In: Puech, C., Reischuk, R. (eds) STACS 96. STACS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1046. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60922-9_5

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