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Illustration of the pumping lemma for regular languages, using xyz decomposition. Date: 29 November 2014: Source: Own work, inspired by File:Pumping-Lemma.png: Author: Jochen Burghardt: Other versions: File:Pumping-Lemma xyz.pdf * File:Pumping-Lemma xyz svg.svg
The pumping lemma for context-free languages (called just "the pumping lemma" for the rest of this article) describes a property that all context-free languages are guaranteed to have. The property is a property of all strings in the language that are of length at least p {\displaystyle p} , where p {\displaystyle p} is a constant—called the ...
The pumping lemma is often used to prove that a particular language is non-regular: a proof by contradiction may consist of exhibiting a string (of the required length) in the language that lacks the property outlined in the pumping lemma. Example: The language = {:} over the alphabet = {,} can be shown to be non-regular as follows:
Illustration of the pumping lemma for regular automata Chomsky and Miller (1957) [ 15 ] used the pumping lemma : they guess a part v of an input string uvw and try to build a corresponding cycle into the automaton to be learned; using membership queries they ask, for appropriate k , which of the strings uw , uvvw , uvvvw , ..., uv k w also ...
Ogden's lemma is often stated in the following form, which can be obtained by "forgetting about" the grammar, and concentrating on the language itself: If a language L is context-free, then there exists some number (where p may or may not be a pumping length) such that for any string s of length at least p in L and every way of "marking" p or more of the positions in s, s can be written as
Pumping lemma for context-free languages, the fact that all sufficiently long strings in such a language have a pair of substrings that can be repeated arbitrarily many times, usually used to prove that certain languages are not context-free; Pumping lemma for indexed languages; Pumping lemma for regular tree languages
The simplest example: S → aSb S → ab. This grammar generates the language {:}, which is not regular (according to the pumping lemma for regular languages). The special character ε stands for the empty string. By changing the above grammar to S → aSb S → ε
Pumping lemma for regular languages, an alternative method for proving that a language is not regular. The pumping lemma may not always be able to prove that a language is not regular. The pumping lemma may not always be able to prove that a language is not regular.