Some Applications of the Formalization of the Pumping Lemma for Context-Free Languages

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2019
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José Bacelar Almeida
Ramos,MVM
Moreira,N
de Queiroz,RJGB
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Context-free languages are highly important in computer language processing technology as well as in formal language theory. The Pumping Lemma for Context-Free Languages states a property that is valid for all context-free languages, which makes it a tool for showing the existence of non-context-free languages. This paper presents a formalization, extending the previously formalized Lemma, of the fact that several well-known languages are not context-free. Moreover, we build on those results to construct a formal proof of the well-known property that context-free languages are not closed under intersection. All the formalization has been mechanized in the Coq proof assistant.
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