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    Rational index of bounded-oscillation languages

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    The rational index of a context-free language LL is a function f(n)f(n), such that for each regular language RR recognized by an automaton with nn states, the intersection of LL and RR is either empty or contains a word shorter than f(n)f(n). It is known that the context-free language (CFL-)reachability problem and Datalog query evaluation for context-free languages (queries) with the polynomial rational index is in NC, while these problems is P-complete in the general case. We investigate the rational index of bounded-oscillation languages and show that it is of polynomial order. We obtain upper bounds on the values of the rational index for general bounded-oscillation languages and for some of its previously studied subclasses
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