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Existence and nonexistence of descriptive patterns

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posted on 2009-07-10, 13:26 authored by Dominik FreydenbergerDominik Freydenberger, Daniel Reidenbach
In the present paper, we study the existence of descriptive patterns, i.e. patterns that cover all words in a given set through morphisms and that are optimal in terms of revealing commonalities of these words. Our main result shows that if patterns may be mapped onto words by arbitrary morphisms, then there exist infinite sets of words that do not have a descriptive pattern. This answers a question posed by Jiang, Kinber, Salomaa, Salomaa and Yu (International Journal of Computer Mathematics 50, 1994). Since the problem of whether a pattern is descriptive depends on the inclusion relation of so-called pattern languages, our technical considerations lead to a number of deep insights into the inclusion problem for and the topology of the class of terminal-free Epattern languages.

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FREYDENBERGER, D.D. and REIDENBACH, D., 2009. Existence and nonexistence of descriptive patterns. IN: Developments in Language Theory, 13th International Conference, DLT 2009, Stuttgart, Germany, June 30-July 3, 2009, Proceedings. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 228-239

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2009

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This paper was published in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science [© Springer Berlin / Heidelberg] and the original publication is available at www.springerlink.com

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9783642027369

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0302-9743;1611-3349

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science;5583

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  • en

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