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Slowly synchronizing automata with zero and incomplete sets

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2009-07-28 v1

Abstract

Using combinatorial properties of incomplete sets in a free monoid we construct a series of n-state deterministic automata with zero whose shortest synchronizing word has length n^2/4+n/2-1.

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@article{arxiv.0907.4576,
  title  = {Slowly synchronizing automata with zero and incomplete sets},
  author = {E. V. Pribavkina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.4576},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, 6 figures

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