The Size-Cost of Boolean Operations on Constant Height Deterministic Pushdown Automata
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We study the size-cost of boolean operations on constant height deterministic pushdown automata. We prove an asymptotically optimal exponential blow-up for union and intersection, as well as polynomial blow-up for complement.
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