Question: Question 2 Pushdown Automata and Context - Free Languages } Consider the alphabet ( Sigma = { a , b ,

Question 2 Pushdown Automata and Context-Free Languages} Consider the alphabet \(\Sigma =\{a, b,\#\}\) and the language \[ B =\{ w \in \Sigma^*\mid w = a^n \# b^{2n}\# a^n \text{ for some } n \in \mathbb{N}\}.\]\begin{enumerate}\item[(a)] Prove that \( B \) is not context-free. \item[(b)] Explain how the following PDA \( P \) operates on words over \(\Sigma \) and show that all words in \( B \) are accepted by this PDA. The PDA \( P \) is described with the following transitions: \begin{itemize}\item \( q_0\xrightarrow{\epsilon,\epsilon \to \$} q_1\)\item \( q_1\xrightarrow{a,\epsilon \to a} q_1\)\item \( q_1\xrightarrow{\#,\epsilon \to \epsilon} q_2\)\item \( q_2\xrightarrow{b, a \to \epsilon} q_2\)\item \( q_2\xrightarrow{\#,\epsilon \to \epsilon} q_3\)\item \( q_3\xrightarrow{a,\epsilon \to b} q_3\)\item \( q_3\xrightarrow{\epsilon,\$ \to \epsilon} q_4\)\item \( q_2\xrightarrow{b,\$ \to \$} q_5\)\item \( q_2\xrightarrow{b, b \to b} q_5\)\item \( q_5\xrightarrow{\epsilon,\epsilon \to b} q_2\)\end{itemize}\item[(c)] Identify the language \( L(P)\) of the above pushdown automaton. \item[(d)] Provide a context-free grammar for the language \( L(P)\).\end{enumerate}

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