On a conjecture by Carpi and D'Alessandro

  • Authors:
  • Mikhail V. Berlinkov

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Algebra and Discrete Mathematics, Ural State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia

  • Venue:
  • DLT'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Developments in language theory
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Recently, Carpi and D'Alessandro [3] have formulated a conjecture whose validity would imply an O(n2) upper bound for the minimum length of reset words for synchronizing automata with n states. We refute this conjecture as well as a related conjecture by Rystsov [13] and suggest a weaker version that still suffices to achieve a quadratic upper bound.