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On Cerný’s conjecture for synchronizing automata

29/04/2016 29 Abril, 16h30, 6.2.33 
Jorge Orestes Cerdeira (DM & CMA/FCT/UNL)
Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon

 

A deterministic finite automaton with n states is called synchronizing if there is a sequence of letters which maps the n states onto a single one. In this talk I will give a proof that searching for a synchronizing word of minimum length is NP-hard, and derive a network flow version of Cerný’s conjecture which states that for every synchronizing automata there is a synchronizing word of length at most (n-1)2.