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 states has a \sw of length at most . On the other hand, the best known upper bound is cubic of . 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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11 pages, 1 figure