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Atoms and partial orders of infinite languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2002

Werner Kuich
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, 1040 Wien, Austria; ([email protected])
N. W. Sauer
Affiliation:
University of Calgary, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 2500 University Dr. NW. Calgary Alberta Canada T2N1N4; ([email protected])
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Abstract

We determine minimal elements, i.e., atoms, in certain partial orders of factor closed languages under . This is in analogy to structural Ramsey theory which determines minimal structures in partial orders under embedding.

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Research Article
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 2001

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