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A lower bound for the nondeterministic space complexity of context-free recognition. (English) Zbl 0780.68081
Summary: We prove a $$\log n$$ lower bound on the nondeterministic space complexity of every nonregular deterministic context-free language.

##### MSC:
 68Q45 Formal languages and automata 68Q25 Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity
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