Langlib

Langlib.Classes.Indexed.Closure.Quotient

Indexed languages are not closed under arbitrary right quotient #

For the binary intersection witnesses A and B, the balanced-copy numerator and denominator from Langlib.Examples.AbnPowMCopy have right quotient equal to the injective image of A ∩ B = {(a b^n)^n | n > 0}. Both operands are indexed, while the shrinking theorem shows that this diagonal quotient is not indexed.

Indexed languages over the three-symbol copy alphabet are not closed under arbitrary right quotient.

Nonclosure transports to every alphabet containing the three-symbol witness alphabet.

Indexed languages are not closed under arbitrary right quotient over every finite alphabet with at least three symbols.