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### Asymptotics of the number of words in a regular language of given length

For a regular language $L$, let $c_n(L)$ be the number of words in $L$ of length $n$. Using Jordan canonical form (applied to the unannotated transition matrix of some DFA for $L$), one can show that ...
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### Is there a 'string stack' data structure that supports these string operations?

I'm looking for a data structure that stores a set of strings over a character set $\Sigma$, capable of performing the following operations. We denote $\mathcal{D}(S)$ as the data structure storing ...
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### Is Logical Min-Cut NP-Complete?

Logical Min Cut (LMC) problem definition Suppose that $G = (V, E)$ is an unweighted digraph, $s$ and $t$ are two vertices of $V$, and $t$ is reachable from $s$. The LMC Problem studies how we can ...
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### Is there a regular tree language in which the average height of a tree of size $n$ is neither $\Theta(n)$ nor $\Theta(\sqrt{n})$?

We define a regular tree language as in the book TATA: It is the set of trees accepted by a non-deterministic finite tree automaton (Chapter 1) or, equivalently, the set of trees generated by a ...
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### How to pack polygons inside another polygon?

I have ordered a few leather sheets from which I would like to build juggling balls by sewing edges together. I'm using the Platonic solids for the shape of the balls. I can scan the leather sheets ...