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Decidability of the HD0L ultimate periodicity problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2013

Fabien Durand
Fabien Durand*
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Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Laboratoire Amiénois de Mathématiques Fondamentales et Appliquées, CNRS-UMR 7352, 33 rue Saint Leu, 80039 Amiens Cedex 01, France. fabien.durand@u-picardie.fr
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Abstract

In this paper we prove the decidability of the HD0L ultimate periodicity problem.

Keywords

HD0L – periodicity – decidability – return words
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Research Article
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RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , April 2013 , pp. 201 - 214
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© EDP Sciences 2013

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