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Regular languages definable by Lindström quantifiers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2003

Zoltán Ésik  and
Kim G. Larsen
Zoltán Ésik
Affiliation:
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Szeged, POB 652, 6701 Szeged, Hungary; ze@inf.u-szeged.hu.
Kim G. Larsen
Affiliation:
Dept. of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7E, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark; kgl@cs.auc.dk.
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Abstract

In our main result, we establish a formal connection between Lindström quantifiers with respect to regular languages and the double semidirect product of finite monoids with a distinguished set of generators. We use this correspondence to characterize the expressive power of Lindström quantifiers associated with a class of regular languages.

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Regular languagelogicLindström quantifierexpressive powersemidirect product.

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RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , July 2003 , pp. 179 - 241
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© EDP Sciences, 2003

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