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Nonregular language satisfying the pumping lemma

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Let K⊆N be undecidable and
L={wabn:w∈{a,b}∗, n∈K}∪b∗.
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Pumping its first symbol always stays in L, so it satisfies the pumping lemma with pumping length one. Yet L∩ab∗={abn:n∈K} is not regular, because a finite automaton for it would decide K.

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