A Structural Lemma for Deterministic Context-Free Languages

We present a new structural lemma for deterministic context free languages. From the first sight, it looks like a pumping lemma, because it is also based on iteration properties, but it has significant distinctions that makes it much easier to apply. The structural lemma is a combinatorial analogue of KC-DCF-Lemma (based on Kolmogorov complexity), presented by Li and Vitanyi in 1995 and corrected by Glier in 2003. The structural lemma allows not only to prove that a language is not a DCFL, but discloses the structure of DCFLs Myhill-Nerode classes.