# HG changeset patch # User urbanc # Date 1298111031 0 # Node ID 342983676c8f95d211721510af647d6066958c06 # Parent c5f138b5fc88f40cd340ee8ec5746d1065a208c9 included comments by Chunhan diff -r c5f138b5fc88 -r 342983676c8f Paper/Paper.thy --- a/Paper/Paper.thy Fri Feb 18 15:06:06 2011 +0000 +++ b/Paper/Paper.thy Sat Feb 19 10:23:51 2011 +0000 @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ involving equivalence classes of languages. For this we will use Arden's lemma \cite{Brzozowski64}, which solves equations of the form @{term "X = A ;; X \ B"} provided @{term "[] \ A"}. However we will need the following `reverse' - version of Arden's lemma. + version of Arden's lemma (`reverse' in the sense of changing the order of @{text "\"}). \begin{lemma}[Reverse Arden's Lemma]\label{arden}\mbox{}\\ If @{thm (prem 1) arden} then @@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ \noindent Finiteness is straightforward, as @{const Subst} and @{const Arden} operations - keep the equational system finite. These operation also preserve soundness + keep the equational system finite. These operations also preserve soundness and distinctness (we proved soundness for @{const Arden} in Lem.~\ref{ardenable}). The property ardenable is clearly preserved because the append-operation cannot make a regular expression to match the empty string. Validity is @@ -848,14 +848,21 @@ section {* Myhill-Nerode, Second Part *} text {* + We will prove in this section the second part of the Myhill-Nerode + theorem. It can be formulated in our setting as follows. \begin{theorem} Given @{text "r"} is a regular expressions, then @{thm Myhill_Nerode2}. \end{theorem} - \begin{proof} - By induction on the structure of @{text r}. The cases for @{const NULL}, @{const EMPTY} - and @{const CHAR} are straightforward, because we can easily establish + \noindent + The proof will be by induction on the structure of @{text r}. It turns out + the base cases are straightforward. + + + \begin{proof}[Base Cases] + The cases for @{const NULL}, @{const EMPTY} and @{const CHAR} are routine, because + we can easily establish \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{l} @@ -865,8 +872,15 @@ \end{tabular} \end{center} + \noindent + hold, which shows that @{term "UNIV // \(L r)"} must be finite.\qed \end{proof} + \noindent + Much more interesting are the inductive cases, which seem hard to be solved + directly. The reader is invited to try. Our method will rely on some + \emph{tagging} functions of strings. Given the inductive hypothesis, it will + be easy to prove that the range of these tagging functions is finite. @{thm tag_str_ALT_def[where ?L1.0="A" and ?L2.0="B"]} @@ -909,6 +923,13 @@ "\"} deterministic automaton @{text "\"} complement automaton @{text "\"} regular expression. + While regular expressions are convenient in formalisations, they have some + limitations. One is that there seems to be no notion of a minimal regular + expression, like there is for automata. For an implementation of a simple + regular expression matcher, whose correctness has been formally + established, we refer the reader to Owens and Slind \cite{OwensSlind08}. + + Our formalisation consists of ??? lines of Isabelle/Isar code for the first direction and ??? for the second. While this might be seen as too large to count as a concise proof pearl, this should be seen in the context of the @@ -960,12 +981,6 @@ as stated in the Introduction is not so convenient to formalise in a HOL-based theorem prover. - While regular expressions are convenient in formalisations, they have some - limitations. One is that there seems to be no notion of a minimal regular - expression, like there is for automata. For an implementation of a simple - regular expression matcher, whose correctness has been formally - established, we refer the reader to Owens and Slind \cite{OwensSlind08}. - *} diff -r c5f138b5fc88 -r 342983676c8f Paper/document/root.tex --- a/Paper/document/root.tex Fri Feb 18 15:06:06 2011 +0000 +++ b/Paper/document/root.tex Sat Feb 19 10:23:51 2011 +0000 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ \title{A Formalisation of the Myhill-Nerode Theorem\\ based on Regular Expressions (Proof Pearl)} -\author{Chunhan Wu\inst{1} \and Xingjuan Zhang\inst{1} \and Christian Urban\inst{2}} +\author{Chunhan Wu\inst{1} \and Xingyuan Zhang\inst{1} \and Christian Urban\inst{2}} \institute{PLA University of Science and Technology, China \and TU Munich, Germany} \maketitle diff -r c5f138b5fc88 -r 342983676c8f tphols-2011/myhill.pdf Binary file tphols-2011/myhill.pdf has changed