Chris Pollett>Old Classes>CS305, Fall 1997>Homeworks

HW 1 due Friday, Sept. 12, 1997

Read Chapter 1

Exercises p.26 0.3, 0.4, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8

Problems p.27 0.11

HW 2 due Wednesday, Sept. 24, 1997

Read Sipser to p.60

Exercises p.83-84 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6

Problem 6. Give an automata which accepts the following set of movie titles: Alien, ALiens, Alien3, Alien4, Alien5, ...

HW 3 due Friday, Oct. 3, 1997

Read Sipser to p.100

Exercises p.85-90 1.9, 1.10b, 1.14, 1.31, 1.39

Exercise p. 120 2.3

HW 4 due Wednesday, Oct.15, 1997

Read Sipser to p.128

Exercises 2.4, 2.5, 2.17, 2.19, 2.20

Problem 6. Show the class of CFL's not closed under intersection. i.e., Give two CFL's the intersection of whom is not a CFL.

HW 5 due Wednesday, Oct.29, 1997

Read Sipser to p.144

Exercises 3.1, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8

HW 6 due Monday, Nov.10, 1997

Read Sipser to p.178

Exercises 3.9, 3.12, 3.13, 4.2, 4.17

Problem 6. Show that A={(M_1, M_2) | L(M_1)=L(M_2) and L(M_1), L(M_2) are CFL's} is undecidable.

HW 7 due Wednesday, Nov.19, 1997

Read Sipser to p.201

Exercises 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.9, 5.15

Problem 6. Show a language C is co-Turing recognized iff there exists a CFL D such that:
C={x | forall y (x,y) in D}.

HW 8 due Friday, Dec.5., 1997

Read Sipser to p.213-220

Exercises 6.15, 6.16, 3.14, 4.11, 4.12, 5.20


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