Lower Bounds on Avoiding Thresholds

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.46" target="_blank" >10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.46</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Lower Bounds on Avoiding Thresholds

Original language description

For a DFA, a word avoids a subset of states, if after reading that word the automaton cannot be in any state from the subset regardless of its initial state. A subset that admits an avoiding word is avoidable. The k-avoiding threshold of a DFA is the smallest number such that every avoidable subset of size k can be avoided with a word no longer than that number. We study the problem of determining the maximum possible k-avoiding thresholds. For every fixed k ≥ 1, we show a general construction of strongly connected DFAs with n states and the k-avoiding threshold in Θ(nk). This meets the known upper bound for k ≥ 3. For k = 1 and k = 2, the known upper bounds are respectively in O(n2) and in O(n3). For k = 1, we show that 2n − 3 is attainable for every number of states n in the class of strongly connected synchronizing binary DFAs, which is supposed to be the best possible in the class of all DFAs for n ≥ 8. For k = 2, we show that the conjectured solution for k = 1 (an upper bound in O(n)) also implies a tight upper bound in O(n2) on 2-avoiding threshold. Finally, we discuss the possibility of using k-avoiding thresholds of synchronizing automata to improve upper bounds on the length of the shortest reset words.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2021)

ISBN

978-3-95977-201-3

ISSN

1868-8969

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

"Article number: 46"

Publisher name

LIPICS

Place of publication

Dagstuhl

Event location

Tallinn

Event date

Aug 23, 2021

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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