Write a regular expression over the given language. [closed]
Words in $L$ can be divided into length-$2$ blocks, an odd number of which are $ab$ or $ba$ (for they change the parity of the $b$ count and $aa,bb$ don't). Letting $X=(aa|bb)^*$ and $Y=(ab|ba)$, a regular expression for $L$ is $X(YXYX)^*YX$.