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Completely Reachable Automata

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2016-07-05 v1

Abstract

We present a few results and several open problems concerning complete deterministic finite automata in which every non-empty subset of the state set occurs as the image of the whole state set under the action of a suitable input word.

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@article{arxiv.1607.00554,
  title  = {Completely Reachable Automata},
  author = {Evgenija Bondar and Mikhail Volkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.00554},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

23 pages, 12 figures. This is an expanded version of the conference paper published in C. Campeanu et al. (eds.), Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems. DCFS 2016 [Lect. Notes Comp. Sci. 9777], Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-N.Y., 2016, 1-17

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