Open problems on regular languages: an historical perspective
Résumé
Operations on regular languages have been studied for fifty years, but several major problems remain wide open. This paper surveys the semigroup approach to these problems. We consider successively the star-height problem, the Straubing-Thérien's concatenation hierarchy and the shuffle operation. On the algebraic side, we present Eilenberg's variety theory and its successive improvements, including the recent notion of C-variety.
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