Complexity Results for Some Subclasses of Context-Free Languages

Authors

  • Liliana Cojocaru „Petre Andrei” University of Iaşi, Romania Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63331/upalaw/32/04

Keywords:

context-free, Dyck normal form, even linear languages, alternating Turing machine

Abstract

We deal with a normal form for context-free grammars, called Dyck normal form. This normal form is a syntactical restriction of the Chomsky normal form, in which the two nonterminals occurring on the right-hand side of a rule are paired nonterminals. This pairwise property, along with several other terminal rewriting conditions, makes it possible to define a homomorphism from Dyck words to words generated by a grammar in Dyck normal form. As an application we give an alternative proof of the inclusion of the class of even linear languages in the circuit complexity class AC1.

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Published

2025-05-11