Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2019 / ii / Paper 4 / 4H / a / i

LetIntersect it with the regular languageEvery word of $R$ contains exactly two copies of $b$. If it is a proper power, its exponent must therefore be two and its root must contain one $b$. HenceThis language is not regular: if $p$ were a pumping length, pumping any nonempty substring among the first $p$ copies of $a$ in $a^{p}b{a}^{p}b$ would change only its first $a$-block. Since regular languages are closed under intersection,This is the proper-power language is not regular.