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A language is factorial if it is closed under taking factors (i.e. contiguous subwords). Every factorial language can be described by an antidictionary, i.e. a minimal set of forbidden factors. We show that the problem of deciding whether a factorial language given by a finite antidictionary is well-quasi-ordered under the factor containment relation can be solved in polynomial time.
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Atminas, A., Lozin, V., Moshkov, M. (2013). Deciding WQO for Factorial Languages. In: Dediu, AH., Martín-Vide, C., Truthe, B. (eds) Language and Automata Theory and Applications. LATA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7810. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37064-9_8
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