More on the power of chain rules in context-free grammars (Q759487)

From MaRDI portal





scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3881892
Language Label Description Also known as
English
More on the power of chain rules in context-free grammars
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3881892

    Statements

    More on the power of chain rules in context-free grammars (English)
    0 references
    0 references
    1983
    0 references
    For all \(\epsilon >0\) we prove for every sufficiently large n: there exists a context-free language \(CL_ n\) with the following properties: (a) \(CL_ n\) has a cfg of size O(n). (b) Each chain rule free cfg for \(CL_ n\) has size \(\Omega (\epsilon^ 3n^{3/2-\epsilon}).\)
    0 references
    size reduction
    0 references
    context-free language
    0 references

    Identifiers