On the Power of Small Size Insertion P Systems

Authors

  • Alexander Krassovitskiy University Rovira i Virgili Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Av. Catalunya, 35, Tarragona 43002, Spain

Keywords:

P systems, insertion-deletion systems, context-free languages, matrix grammars, computational completeness

Abstract

In this article we investigate insertion systems of small size in the framework of P systems. We consider P systems with insertion rules having one symbol context and we show that they have the computational power of context-free matrix grammars. If contexts of length two are permitted, then any recursively enumerable language can be generated. In both cases a squeezing mechanism, an inverse morphism, and a weak coding are applied to the output of the corresponding P systems. We also show that if no membranes are used then corresponding family is equal to the family of context-free languages.

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Published

2011-06-10

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