Ordinary Generating Functions of Context-Free Grammars

Abstract

A context-free grammar is a set of mathematical rules that classifies strings (sequences of symbols) as either valid or invalid . Given a context-free grammar, the set of all valid strings is known as a context-free language. The counting sequence of a language is defined as the sequence of numbers stating how many strings of each length are elements of the language. Finally, the ordinary generating function of a sequence is the power series whose coefficients are the elements of the sequence. This paper investigates the properties of ordinary generating functions of counting sequences of context-free languages. We also discuss the Chomsky–Schützenberger Theorem, an important theorem about these generating functions

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