LALR look-ahead sets from item right context grammar?

The right context grammar for item i in state j of the LR(0) automaton
of CFG G describes all  of the suffixes that can follow any prefix
arriving at (i, j) when parsing a string in L(G). If the start symbol of
the right context grammar is nullable, it would mean a string in L(G)
could end at (i, j). If we augment G with S' -> S $ then S' -> S $ *
should be the only item with a nullable right context grammar start
symbol, and FOLLOW would also be the empty string.


And my hypothesis is that FIRST(RCG(i,j)) is the LALR look-ahead set for
(i, j), where RCG(i, j) is the start symbol of the right context grammar
for item i in state j of the LR(0) automaton of the augmented G.


The RCG computing algorithm gives a right-regular grammar for the right
contexts if the non-terminals of G are treated as terminals in the RCG.
For making an LR-Regular parser, G's non-terminals are replaced by their
approximate regular envelopes to give a regular approximation of the
right contexts. But if we include G's non-terminals and productions in
the RCG, the RCG is an accurate CFG for the right contexts.

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