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Recently, Dassow et al. connected partial words and regular languages. Partial words are sequences in which some positions may be undefined, represented with a “hole” symbol ⋄. If we restrict what the symbol ⋄ can represent, we can use partial words to compress the representation of regular languages. Doing so allows the creation of so-called ⋄-DFAs which are smaller than the DFAs recognizing the original language L, which recognize the compressed language. However, the ⋄-DFAs may be larger than the NFAs recognizing L. In this paper, we investigate a question of Dassow et al. as to how these sizes are related.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMS–1060775.
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Balkanski, E., Blanchet-Sadri, F., Kilgore, M., Wyatt, B.J. (2013). Partial Word DFAs. In: Konstantinidis, S. (eds) Implementation and Application of Automata. CIAA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7982. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39274-0_5
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