Abstract

We show that the commutative closure of a star-free language is either star-free or not regular anymore. Actually, this property is shown to hold exactly for the closure with respect to a partial commutation corresponding to a transitive dependence relation. Moreover, the question whether the closure of a star-free language remains star-free is decidable precisely for transitive partial commutation relations.

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