The paper characterizes the family of homomorphisms, under which the deterministic context-free languages, the LL context-free languages and the unambiguous context-free languages are closed. The family of deterministic context-free languages is closed under a homomorphism h if and only if h is either a code of bounded deciphering delay, or the images of all symbols under h are powers of the same string. The same characterization holds for LL context-free languages. The unambiguous context-free languages are closed under h if and only if either h is a code, or the images of all symbols under h are powers of the same string.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1049-1066
Number of pages18
JournalInternational Journal of Foundations of Computer Science
Volume24
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2013

    Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science (miscellaneous)

    Research areas

  • Bounded deciphering delay, Closure properties, Coding theory, Context-free grammars

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