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arxiv: 1004.1736 · v1 · submitted 2010-04-10 · 💻 cs.FL · cs.DM

An undecidable property of context-free languages

classification 💻 cs.FL cs.DM
keywords context-freegeneratedlanguageslexicographicundecidablewhetheralgorithmcorollary
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We prove that there exists no algorithm to decide whether the language generated by a context-free grammar is dense with respect to the lexicographic ordering. As a corollary to this result, we show that it is undecidable whether the lexicographic orderings of the languages generated by two context-free grammars have the same order type.

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