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On Carpi and Alessandro conjecture

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2010-02-15 v2

Abstract

The well known open \v{C}ern\'y conjecture states that each \san with nn states has a \sw of length at most (n1)2(n-1)^2. On the other hand, the best known upper bound is cubic of nn. Recently, in the paper \cite{CARPI1} of Alessandro and Carpi, the authors introduced the new notion of strongly transitivity for automata and conjectured that this property with a help of \emph{Extension} method allows to get a quadratic upper bound for the length of the shortest \sws. They also confirmed this conjecture for circular automata. We disprove this conjecture and the long-standing \emph{Extension} conjecture too. We also consider the widely used Extension method and its perspectives.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0909.3790,
  title  = {On Carpi and Alessandro conjecture},
  author = {M. V. Berlinkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.3790},
  year   = {2010}
}

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