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We give characterizations of strong determinism for regular expressions with counting, based on which we present an O(|Σ E ||E|) time algorithm to check whether an expression E with counting is strongly deterministic where Σ E is the set of distinct symbols in E. It improves the previous upper bound of O(|E|3) time on the same decision problems for both standard regular expressions and regular expressions with counting. As a natural result of our work we derive a characterization of weak determinism for regular expressions with counting, which leads to a new O(|Σ E ||E|) time algorithm for deciding weak determinism of regular expressions with counting.
Work supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61070038.
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Chen, H., Lu, P. (2012). Checking Determinism of Regular Expressions with Counting. In: Yen, HC., Ibarra, O.H. (eds) Developments in Language Theory. DLT 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7410. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31653-1_30
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