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Homomorphic Characterizations of Indexed Languages

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We study a family of context-free languages that reduce to \(\varepsilon \) in the free group and give several homomorphic characterizations of indexed languages relevant to that family.

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The authors would like to thank Pr. Jean-Marc Talbot whose remarks and suggestions greatly improved the development of this paper.

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    Séverine Fratani & El Makki Voundy

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Fratani, S., Voundy, E.M. (2016). Homomorphic Characterizations of Indexed Languages. In: Dediu, AH., Janoušek, J., Martín-Vide, C., Truthe, B. (eds) Language and Automata Theory and Applications. LATA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9618. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30000-9_28

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