Lecture 07
Section outline
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October 17th, Thursday (08:30-10:30)
Finite state automata
- Conversion of an \(\varepsilon\)-NFA into a DFA: subset construction and \(\varepsilon\)-closure
- Theorem (proof omitted): Equivalence between \(\varepsilon\)-NFA and DFA
Regular expressions
- Set operators over languages
- Inductive definition of regular expression and of the generated language
- Examples
- Operator precedence
- Tree structure underlying a regular expression
- Exercises
References
- Hopcroft et al., chapter 3