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A stochastic timed automaton is a purely stochastic process defined on a timed automaton, in which both delays and discrete choices are made randomly. We study the almost-sure model-checking problem for this model, that is, given a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Nathalie Bertrand , Patricia Bouyer , Thomas Brihaye , Quentin Menet , Christel Baier , Marcus Groesser , Marcin Jurdzinski

An automata network is a finite graph where each node holds a state from some finite alphabet and is equipped with an update function that changes its state according to the configuration of neighboring states. More concisely, it is given…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Florian Bridoux , Maximilien Gadouleau , Guillaume Theyssier

We have improved an algorithm generating synchronizing automata with a large length of the shortest reset words. This has been done by refining some known results concerning bounds on the reset length. Our improvements make possible to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Andrzej Kisielewicz , Jakub Kowalski , Marek Szykuła

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. All these automata are tightly related to primitive digraphs with large exponent.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Dmitry S. Ananichev , Vladimir V. Gusev , Mikhail V. Volkov

Instead of looking at the lengths of synchronizing words as in \v{C}ern\'y's conjecture, we look at the switch count of such words, that is, we only count the switches from one letter to another. Where the synchronizing words of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Henk Don , Hans Zantema

A deterministic finite automaton is synchronizing if there exists a word that sends all states of the automaton to the same state. \v{C}ern\'y conjectured in 1964 that a synchronizing automaton with $n$ states has a synchronizing word of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-23 Henk Don

In this work we construct an automaton for the commutative closure of a given regular group language. The number of states of the resulting automaton is bounded by the number of states of the original automaton, raised to the power of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Stefan Hoffmann

The question if a deterministic finite automaton admits a software reset in the form of a so-called synchronizing word can be answered in polynomial time. In this paper, we extend this algorithmic question to deterministic automata beyond…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Henning Fernau , Petra Wolf , Tomoyuki Yamakami

We approach the task of computing a carefully synchronizing word of optimum length for a given partial deterministic automaton, encoding the problem as an instance of SAT and invoking a SAT solver. Our experiments demonstrate that this…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Hanan Shabana , Mikhail Volkov

We give a new example of an automata group of intermediate growth. It is generated by an automaton with 4 states on an alphabet with 8 letters. This automata group has exponential activity and its limit space is not simply connected.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-30 Jérémie Brieussel

Probabilistic cellular automata provide a simple framework for the exploration of classical nonequilibrium processes. Recently, quantum cellular automata have been proposed that rely on the propagation of a one-dimensional quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Edward Gillman , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

We introduce the notion of adaptive synchronisation for pushdown automata, in which there is an external observer who has no knowledge about the current state of the pushdown automaton, but can observe the contents of the stack. The…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 A. R. Balasubramanian , K. S. Thejaswini

We introduce a new class of semigroups arising from a restricted class of asynchronous automata. We call these semigroups "expanding automaton semigroups." We show that the class of synchronous automaton semigroups is strictly contained in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-11 David McCune

A synchronizing word of a deterministic finite complete automaton is a word whose action maps every state to a single one. Finding a shortest or a short synchronizing word is a central computational problem in the theory of synchronizing…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Marek Szykuła , Adam Zyzik

The state complexity of a Deterministic Finite-state automaton (DFA) is the number of states in its minimal equivalent DFA. We study the state complexity of random $n$-state DFAs over a $k$-symbol alphabet, drawn uniformly from the set…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-03 Daniel Berend , Aryeh Kontorovich

Let $\Omega$ be a set of cardinality $n$, $G$ a permutation group on $\Omega$, and $f:\Omega\to\Omega$ a map which is not a permutation. We say that $G$ \emph{synchronizes} $f$ if the transformation semigroup $\langle G,f\rangle$ contains a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-16 João Araújo , Wolfram Bentz , Peter J. Cameron , Gordon Royle , Artur Schaefer

A word is called carefully synchronising for a partial deterministic finite semi-automaton if it maps all states to the same state. Equivalently, it is a composition of partial transformations equal to a constant total transformation. There…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Andrew Ryzhikov

In this paper we are dealing with the issue of finding possibly short synchronizing words in automata with weight assigned to each letter in the alphabet $\Sigma$. First we discuss some complexity problems, and then we present new…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Jakub Ruszil

Consider $n$ identical Kuramoto oscillators on a random graph. Specifically, consider \ER random graphs in which any two oscillators are bidirectionally coupled with unit strength, independently and at random, with probability $0\leq p\leq…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Martin Kassabov , Steven H. Strogatz , Alex Townsend

We present a new classification of elementary cellular automata. It is based on the structure of the network of states, connected with the transitions between them; the latter are determined by the automaton rule. Recently an algorithm has…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2013-04-23 Malgorzata J. Krawczyk