Abstract
We study the nondeterministic state complexity of basic regular operations on the classes of prefix-, suffix-, factor-, and subword-free and -convex regular languages. For the operations of intersection, union, concatenation, square, star, reversal, and complementation, we get the tight upper bounds for all considered classes except for complementation on factor- and subword-convex languages. Most of our witnesses are described over optimal alphabets. The most interesting result is the describing of a proper suffix-convex language over a five-letter alphabet meeting the upper bound \(2^n\) for complementation.
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