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Synchronizing Automata Preserving a Chain of Partial Orders

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We present a new class of automata which strictly contains the class of aperiodic automata and shares with the latter certain synchronization properties. In particular, every strongly connected automaton in this new class is synchronizing and has a reset word of length \(\left\lfloor\frac{n(n+1)}6\right\rfloor\) where n is the number of states of the automaton.

Supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant 05-01-00540.

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Volkov, M.V. (2007). Synchronizing Automata Preserving a Chain of Partial Orders. In: Holub, J., Žďárek, J. (eds) Implementation and Application of Automata. CIAA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4783. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76336-9_5

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