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Definability by Weakly Deterministic Regular Expressions with Counters is Decidable

  • Markus LatteEmail author
  • Matthias Niewerth
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 9234)

Abstract

We show that weakly deterministic regular expressions with counters (WDREs) —as they are used in XML Schema— are at most exponentially larger than equivalent DFAs. As a consequence, the problem, whether a given DFA is equivalent to any WDRE, is decidable in EXPSPACE.

Keywords

Normal Form Regular Expression Regular Language Parse Tree Alphabet Symbol 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Universität BayreuthBayreuthGermany

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