This paper situates itself in the theory of variable length codes and of finite automata where the concepts of completeness and synchronization play a central role. In this theoretical setting, we investigate the problem of finding upper bounds to the minimal length of synchronizing and incompletable words of a finite language X in terms of the length of the words of X. This problem is related to two well-known conjectures formulated by Černý and Restivo respectively. In particular, if Restivo's conjecture is true, our main result provides a quadratic bound for the minimal length of a synchronizing pair of any finite synchronizing complete code with respect to the maximal length of its words.
Cerny-like problems for finite sets of words / A., Carpi; D'Alessandro, Flavio. - STAMPA. - 1231:(2014), pp. 81-92. (Intervento presentato al convegno 15th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science tenutosi a Perugia; Italy).
Cerny-like problems for finite sets of words
D'ALESSANDRO, Flavio
2014
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This paper situates itself in the theory of variable length codes and of finite automata where the concepts of completeness and synchronization play a central role. In this theoretical setting, we investigate the problem of finding upper bounds to the minimal length of synchronizing and incompletable words of a finite language X in terms of the length of the words of X. This problem is related to two well-known conjectures formulated by Černý and Restivo respectively. In particular, if Restivo's conjecture is true, our main result provides a quadratic bound for the minimal length of a synchronizing pair of any finite synchronizing complete code with respect to the maximal length of its words.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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