How to prove that $L_1=1^*\cup \{0^i 1^{j^2}|i\ge 0,j\ge 0\} $ is irregular? [duplicate]

Question

We know that $L=\{0^i 1^{j^2}|i> 0,j\ge 0\} $ is irregular (by the Pumping Lemma), we have to use it to prove two things:

1. $L_1=1^*\cup \{0^i 1^{j^2}|i\ge 0,j\ge 0\} $ is irregular.
2. $L_1$ is making all the three conditions (I don't know the exactly word at English for this...) of the Pumping Lemma.

For the first one - how do I prove it by the Pumping Lemma?

For the second - I have no idea and I'd like to get ant help!
(Because I can choose any word that I want, and I need to prove it for all the words in $L$).

Thank you!

Answer 1

You don't need to use the pumping lemma to prove that $L_1$ is irregular. You can also make use of the closure properties of the regular languages.

We know that regular languages are closed under intersection. That is, if $L_1$ and $L_2$ are regular languages then $L_3 = L_1\cap L_2$ is also a regular language.

A nice way to prove that a language is irregular is to assume that it is regular and reach a contradiction using the closure properties of the regular languages.

For example consider the language $L_p = \{1^p: p\text{ is prime}\}$ we know that this is an irregular language. Let's consider $L_q = L_p \cup 0^*$. How can we prove that this language is irregular?

Let us assume for the purpose of contradiction that $L_q$ is regular, hence $L_q\cap 1^*$ is also a regular language since $1^*$ is a regular language. But wait.. The intersection is $L_p$ (the primes) which is not a regular language. Contradiction. So $L_q$ is irregular.

Your problem can be solved along the same lines.