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It is proved that there exist semigroups of regular languages not possessing automatic structure of a certain special form and also that semigroups of regular languages over a one-letter alphabet are automatic.
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Original Russian Text © E.E. Khazova, 2007, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Matematika. Mekhanika, 2007, Vol. 62, No. 6, pp. 55–59.
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Khazova, E.E. Automaticity of semigroups of regular languages. Moscow Univ. Math. Bull. 62, 247–250 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0027132207060071
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