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1) The document summarizes regular expressions (RE) including Kleene star closure, plus operation, recursive definitions of languages, and examples of languages defined over alphabets. 2) Examples of regular expressions are given for languages such as strings containing exactly one "aa", strings of even/odd length, and strings starting or ending with certain letters. 3) It is noted that a language can have multiple regular expressions but a regular expression uniquely defines a language. Tasks are provided asking to write regular expressions for example languages.

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Lesson 03

1) The document summarizes regular expressions (RE) including Kleene star closure, plus operation, recursive definitions of languages, and examples of languages defined over alphabets. 2) Examples of regular expressions are given for languages such as strings containing exactly one "aa", strings of even/odd length, and strings starting or ending with certain letters. 3) It is noted that a language can have multiple regular expressions but a regular expression uniquely defines a language. Tasks are provided asking to write regular expressions for example languages.

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Recap Lecture-2

 Kleene Star Closure, Plus operation, recursive


definition of languages, INTEGER, EVEN,
factorial, PALINDROME, {anbn}, languages of
strings (i) ending in a, (ii) beginning and ending
in same letters, (iii) containing aa or bb
(iv)containing exactly aa,

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Task
 Q)
1) Let S={ab, bb} and T={ab, bb, bbbb} Show
that S* = T* [Hint S*  T* and T*  S*]
2) Let S={ab, bb} and T={ab, bb, bbb} Show that
S* ≠ T* But S*  T*
Solution: Since S  T , so every string belonging
to S* , also belongs to T* but bbb is a string
belongs to T* but does not belong to S*.

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 3) Let S={a, bb, bab, abaab} be a set of strings. Are
abbabaabab and baabbbabbaabb in S*? Does any word
in S* have odd number of b’s?
Solution: since abbabaabab can be grouped as (a)(bb)
(abaab)ab , which shows that the last member of the
group does not belong to S, so abbabaabab is not in S*,
while baabbbabbaabb can not be grouped as members
of S, hence baabbbabbaabb is not in S*. Since each
string in S has even number of b’s so there is no
possiblity of any string with odd number of b’s to be in
S*.

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Task

Q1)Is there any case when S+ contains Λ? If


yes then justify your answer.
Solution: consider S={Λ,a} then
S+ ={Λ, a, aa, aaa, …}
Here Λ is in S+ as member of S. Thus Λ will
be in S+ , in this case.

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Q2) Prove that for any set of strings S

i. (S+)*=(S*)*
Solution: In general Λ is not in S+ , while Λ
does belong to S*. Obviously Λ will now be
in (S+)*, while (S*)* and S* generate the
same set of strings. Hence (S+)*=(S*)*.

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Q2) continued…

ii) (S+)+=S+
Solution: since S+ generates all possible
strings that can be obtained by
concatenating the strings of S, so (S+)+
generates all possible strings that can be
obtained by concatenating the strings of S+
, will not generate any new string.
Hence (S+)+=S+

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Q2) continued…

iii) Is (S*)+=(S+)*
Solution: since Λ belongs to S* ,so Λ will
belong to (S*)+ as member of S* .Moreover
Λ may not belong to S+, in general, while Λ
will automatically belong to (S+)*.
Hence (S*)+=(S+)*

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Regular Expression

 As discussed earlier that a* generates


Λ, a, aa, aaa, …
and a+ generates a, aa, aaa, aaaa, …, so the
language L1 = {Λ, a, aa, aaa, …} and L2 =
{a, aa, aaa, aaaa, …} can simply be expressed
by a* and a+, respectively.
a* and a+ are called the regular expressions
(RE) for L1 and L2 respectively.
Note: a+, aa* and a*a generate L2.
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Recursive definition of Regular
Expression(RE)

Step 1: Every letter of Σ including Λ is a regular expression.


Step 2: If r1 and r2 are regular expressions then
1.(r1)

2.r1 r2

3.r1 + r2 and

4. r1*
are also regular expressions.
Step 3: Nothing else is a regular expression.

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Defining Languages (continued)…

 Method 3 (Regular Expressions)


 Consider the language L={Λ, x, xx, xxx,…} of
strings, defined over Σ = {x}.
We can write this language as the Kleene star
closure of alphabet Σ or L=Σ*={x}*
this language can also be expressed by the regular
expression x*.
 Similarly the language L={x, xx, xxx,…}, defined
over Σ = {x}, can be expressed by the regular
expression x+.

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 Now consider another language L, consisting
of all possible strings, defined over Σ
= {a, b}. This language can also be expressed
by the regular expression
(a + b)*.
 Now consider another language L, of strings
having exactly double a, defined over Σ
= {a, b}, then it’s regular expression may be
b*aab*

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 Now consider another language L, of even
length, defined over Σ = {a, b}, then it’s
regular expression may be
((a+b)(a+b))*
 Now consider another language L, of odd
length, defined over Σ = {a, b}, then it’s
regular expression may be
(a+b)((a+b)(a+b))* or
((a+b)(a+b))*(a+b)

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Remark

 It may be noted that a language may be


expressed by more than one regular
expressions, while given a regular expression
there exist a unique language generated by that
regular expression.

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 Example:
 Consider the language, defined over
Σ={a , b} of words having at least one a,
may be expressed by a regular expression
(a+b)*a(a+b)*.
 Consider the language, defined over
Σ = {a, b} of words having at least one a
and one b, may be expressed by a regular
expression
(a+b)*a(a+b)*b(a+b)*+ (a+b)*b(a+b)*a(a+b)*. 14
 Consider the language, defined over
Σ={a, b}, of words starting with double a
and ending in double b then its regular
expression may be aa(a+b)*bb
 Consider the language, defined over
Σ={a, b} of words starting with a and
ending in b OR starting with b and
ending in a, then its regular expression
may be a(a+b)*b+b(a+b)*a

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TASK

 Consider the language, defined over


Σ={a, b} of words beginning with a, then
its regular expression may be a(a+b)*

 Consider the language, defined over


Σ={a, b} of words beginning and ending
in same letter, then its regular expression
may be (a+b)+a(a+b)*a+b(a+b)*b

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TASK

 Consider the language, defined over


Σ={a, b} of words ending in b, then its
regular expression may be (a+b)*b.
 Consider the language, defined over
Σ={a, b} of words not ending in a, then its
regular expression may be (a+b)*b + Λ. It is to
be noted that this language may also be
expressed by ((a+b)*b)*.

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SummingUP Lecture 3

RE, Recursive definition of RE, defining languages


by RE, { x}*, { x}+, {a+b}*, Language of strings
having exactly one aa, Language of strings of
even length, Language of strings of odd
length, RE defines unique language (as Remark),
Language of strings having at least one a,
Language of strings havgin at least one a and
one b, Language of strings starting with aa
and ending in bb, Language of strings starting
with and ending in different letters.

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