Fall 98, CSE 468: Assignment 5
Distributed: Published on the web on November 6.
Due: November 18 (in class).
Total maximum score: 100 points.
The purpose of this assignment is to
to provide experience with context-free languages and with Turing Machines.
Please write your solutions as clearly and concisely as possible.
- (60 pts)
For each of the following languages, say whether it is context-free
or not, and prove your answer. (If the language is context-free, the proof
can be done by defining the corresponding CFG or PDA. If the language is not
context-free, the proof can be done as a proof-by-contadiction via the
pumping lemma.)
- L = {anbnan | n >= 0}
where "n >= 0" means "n greater than or equal to 0".
- L = {anbnbn | n >= 0}
- L = {xx~ | x in {a,b}*} where
x~ represents the string obtained from x by
changing all a's in b's
and viceversa. Example: if x = aaba then x~ = bbab
- (40 pts)
Give the diagram of a Turing machine that accepts the language
L = {akbmckdm | k, m >= 0}