On incomplete and synchronizing finite sets

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DOI10.1016/J.TCS.2015.08.042zbMATH Open1359.68161arXiv1612.07881OpenAlexW1888551009MaRDI QIDQ517035FDOQ517035


Authors: Arturo Carpi, Flavio D'Alessandro Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 16 March 2017

Published in: Theoretical Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper situates itself in the theory of variable length codes and of finite automata where the concepts of completeness and synchronization play a central role. In this theoretical setting, we investigate the problem of finding upper bounds to the minimal length of synchronizing words and incompletable words of a finite language X in terms of the length of the words of X. This problem is related to two well-known conjectures formulated by Cerny and Restivo, respectively. In particular, if Restivo's conjecture is true, our main result provides a quadratic bound for the minimal length of a synchronizing pair of any finite synchronizing complete code with respect to the maximal length of its words.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.07881




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