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  LR(k) Testing is Average-Case Complete (A Note)

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by Christoph Karg, Abteilung Theoretische Informatik
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Abstract:

In this note, we show that LR(k) testing of context-free grammars with respect to random instances is many-one complete for DistNP (Distributional NP). The same result holds for testing whether a context-free grammar is LL(k), strong LL(k), SLR(k), LC(k) or strong LC(k), respectively. 1

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