An Algebraic Normal Form for Regular Events

21x15cm, 164 pp, University of Copenhagen doctoral dissertation. Contents: Preliminaries: Free Groups; Subsets of Free Groups & Regular Expressions; Automata; State Graphs; The Normal Form: Assigments of Significant Factors; Normal Forms; Normal Automata; The Deterministic Normal Flow: Deterministic Automata; Simple Events & One-Letter Events; Proper & Improper Automata; Normal Forms of Star Events; The Canonical Automaton; Normal Forms & Regular Expressions: Simple Group Events; A Decision Procedure for Normal Forms; Normal Forms & Partitions: Weak Partitions; Decomposition of Normal Forms; A Decomposition Result; The Lattice of Weak Group Partitions of a Weak Group Automaton; Selected Applications: Finitely Generated Subsemigroups of Free Groups; Transition Diagrams; Sequential Mappings. Some minor rubbing & cover soil. VG.