On some factorization problems
Author(s) -
Marcella Anselmo,
Clelia De Felice,
Antonio Restivo
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
bulletin of the belgian mathematical society - simon stevin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.36
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 2034-1970
pISSN - 1370-1444
DOI - 10.36045/bbms/1105730621
Subject(s) - factorization , decidability , unary operation , property (philosophy) , class (philosophy) , regular language , combinatorics , mathematics , product (mathematics) , computer science , discrete mathematics , algebra over a field , algorithm , pure mathematics , automaton , theoretical computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , geometry , epistemology
We consider three notions of factorization arising in dierent frameworks: factorizing languages, factorization of the natural numbers, factorizing codes. A language X A is called factorizing if there exists a language Y A such that XY = A and the product is unambiguous. This is a decidable property for recognizable languages X. If we consider the particular case of unary alphabets, we prove that nite factorizing languages can be constructed by using Krasner factorizations. Moreover, we extend Krasner’s algorithm to factorizations of A n . We introduce a class of languages, the strong factorizing languages, which are related to the factorizing codes, introduced by
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