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Completely Reachable Road Coloring

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2026-07-13 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We determine which digraphs admit an edge labeling by letters from a finite alphabet such that the resulting labeled digraph is a completely reachable automaton. Such digraphs are recognizable in polynomial time; however, the problem becomes NP-complete when the size of the label alphabet is fixed. We also classify the digraphs for which every edge labeling results in a completely reachable automaton.

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@article{arxiv.2607.12078,
  title  = {Completely Reachable Road Coloring},
  author = {Mikhail V. Volkov and Yinfeng Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.12078},
  year   = {2026}
}

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16 pages, 7 figures