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Given a formal language L specified in various ways, we consider the problem of determining if L is nonempty. If L is indeed nonempty, we find upper and lower bounds on the length of the shortest string in L.
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Alpoge, L., Ang, T., Schaeffer, L., Shallit, J. (2011). Decidability and Shortest Strings in Formal Languages. In: Holzer, M., Kutrib, M., Pighizzini, G. (eds) Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems. DCFS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6808. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22600-7_5
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