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Approximating the minimum length of synchronizing words is hard

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2015-05-14 v2 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We prove that, unless P=NP\mathrm{P}=\mathrm{NP}, no polynomial algorithm can approximate the minimum length of \sws for a given \san within a constant factor.

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@article{arxiv.0909.3787,
  title  = {Approximating the minimum length of synchronizing words is hard},
  author = {M. V. Berlinkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.3787},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, 1 figure

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