id: 05778937 dt: j an: 05778937 au: Almeida, Jorge; Klíma, Ondřej ti: A counterexample to a conjecture concerning concatenation hierarchies. so: Inf. Process. Lett. 110, No. 1, 4-7 (2009). py: 2009 pu: Elsevier Sciences Publishers (North-Holland), Amsterdam la: EN cc: ut: formal languages; regular languages; concatenation hierarchies; level two; star-free languages ci: li: doi:10.1016/j.ipl.2009.09.011 ab: Summary: We give a counterexample to the conjecture which was originally formulated by Straubing in 1986 concerning a certain algebraic characterization of regular languages of level 2 in the Straubing-Thérien concatenation hierarchy of star-free languages. rv: