Back references. Show that the back-reference operation is a not-so-regular expression that cannot be constructed from the core regular expression operations. Show that no DFA can recognize the language consisting of ww where w is some string (e.g., beriberi and couscous) but the Java regular expression (.*)\1 describes this language.
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