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Slowly synchronizing automata and digraphs

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2014-11-25 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We present several infinite series of synchronizing automata for which the minimum length of reset words is close to the square of the number of states. These automata are closely related to primitive digraphs with large exponent.

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@article{arxiv.1005.0129,
  title  = {Slowly synchronizing automata and digraphs},
  author = {Dmitry S. Ananichev and Vladimir V. Gusev and Mikhail V. Volkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.0129},
  year   = {2014}
}

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13 pages, 5 figures

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