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Complexity of a Problem Concerning Reset Words for Eulerian Binary Automata

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Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA 2014)

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A word is called a reset word for a deterministic finite automaton if it maps all states of the automaton to one state. Deciding about the existence of a reset word of given length for a given automaton is known to be a NP-complete problem. We prove that it remains NP-complete even if restricted on Eulerian automata over the binary alphabet, as it has been conjectured by Martyugin (2011).

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  1. Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

    Vojtěch Vorel

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  1. Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics, Rovira i Virgili University, Avinguda Catalunya, 35, 43002, Tarragona, Spain

    Adrian-Horia Dediu  & Carlos Martín-Vide  & 

  2. School of Computer Science, Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Complutense University of Madrid, Professor José Garcia Santesmases, 9, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    José-Luis Sierra-Rodríguez

  3. Fakultät für Informatik, Institut für Wissens- und Sprachverarbeitung, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany

    Bianca Truthe

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Vorel, V. (2014). Complexity of a Problem Concerning Reset Words for Eulerian Binary Automata. In: Dediu, AH., Martín-Vide, C., Sierra-Rodríguez, JL., Truthe, B. (eds) Language and Automata Theory and Applications. LATA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8370. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04921-2_47

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