Kleene Star - Generalization

Generalization

Strings form a monoid with concatenation as the binary operation and λ the identity element. The Kleene star is defined for any monoid, not just strings. More precisely, let be a monoid, and . Then is the smallest submonoid of containing ; that is, contains the neutral element of, the set, and is such that if, then .

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