Complexity results for prefix grammars

Markus Lohrey; Holger Petersen

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications (2010)

  • Volume: 39, Issue: 2, page 391-401
  • ISSN: 0988-3754

Abstract

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Resolving an open problem of Ravikumar and Quan, we show that equivalence of prefix grammars is complete in PSPACE. We also show that membership for these grammars is complete in P (it was known that this problem is in P) and characterize the complexity of equivalence and inclusion for monotonic grammars. For grammars with several premises we show that membership is complete in EXPTIME and hard for PSPACE for monotonic grammars.

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Lohrey, Markus, and Petersen, Holger. "Complexity results for prefix grammars." RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications 39.2 (2010): 391-401. <http://eudml.org/doc/92772>.

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