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Given the following two languages :

L1 = {an bn | n ≥ 0, n ≠ 100}

L2 = {w ∈ {a, b, c}*| na(w) = nb(w) = nc(w)}

Which of the following options is correct ?

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UGC NET 2016 Paper 1 Question Paper (10-Jul-2016)
The correct answer is

L1 is context free language, L2 is not context free language.

Context-free languages are closed under intersection with a regular language, and \(\{a^n b^n c^n\}\) is the standard non-context-free language.

L1: it equals \(\{a^n b^n : n \ge 0\} \cap \overline{\{a^{100} b^{100}\}}\). The first set is context free and the complement of a single string is regular, so L1 is context free (a PDA simply also rejects the one string with 100 a’s).

L2: intersect it with the regular set \(a^* b^* c^*\). The result is \(\{a^n b^n c^n : n \ge 0\}\), which the pumping lemma shows is not context free. If L2 were context free the intersection would be too, so L2 is not context free.

Calling both context free ignores the three-way count in L2; calling L1 non-context-free ignores that removing one string keeps a CFL context free.

L1 is context free language, L2 is not context free language. option is correct.

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