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Deterministic context-free languages are unambiguous

Statement

Every deterministic context-free language has an unambiguous context-free grammar.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A deterministic context-free language L.

[L2]

By A DPDA has at most one computation on each input, computations of a DPDA on one marked input are linearly ordered by extension and have at most one maximal computation.

[L3]

By If a PDA has at most one accepting computation on each word, the standard PDA-to-CFG construction is unambiguous, a PDA with at most one accepting computation on each word yields an unambiguous fragment-variable grammar for the same language.

Proof

technique · direct
1.1

Choose a DPDA M recognizing L by [L1].

L1givenchoose
2.1

Form an equivalent DPDA M^ that records whether the endmarker has been consumed. Before it simulates M in a pre-endmarker copy of the state set; a transition consuming enters the post-endmarker copy; and all subsequent ε-moves remain in that copy. Declare a post-endmarker copy accepting exactly when its underlying state lies in F, and delete every outgoing move from those accepting copies. This preserves determinism by [L1]: it only duplicates states and removes moves.

L1step 1.1
3.1

The machine M^ recognizes the same language as M. Indeed, an accepting computation of M has consumed the marked input and hence reaches a post-endmarker accepting copy in M^; conversely, every accepting copy projects to an accepting configuration of M. Halting at the first such copy does not change whether that configuration is reachable.

L1step 2.1
3.2

Every accepting computation of M^ is maximal because its accepting states have no outgoing moves. By [L2], there is therefore at most one accepting computation on each marked input.

L2step 2.1
4.1

Applying [L3] to M^ yields an unambiguous context-free grammar generating its language, which is L by step 3.1. Therefore every deterministic context-free language is unambiguous.

L3step 3.1step 3.2

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