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The Synchronization Game on Subclasses of Automata

Authors Henning Fernau , Carolina Haase, Stefan Hoffmann

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  • Theory of computation → Regular languages
  • Theory of computation → Complexity classes
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  • Synchronization of finite automata
  • computational complexity

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Abstract

The notion of synchronization of finite automata is connected to one of the long-standing open problems in combinatorial automata theory, which is Černý’s Conjecture. In this paper, we focus on so-called synchronization games. We will discuss how to present synchronization questions in a playful way. This leads us to study related complexity questions on certain classes of finite automata. More precisely, we consider weakly acyclic, commutative and k-simple idempotent automata. We encounter a number of complexity classes, ranging from L up to PSPACE.

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Henning Fernau, Carolina Haase, and Stefan Hoffmann. The Synchronization Game on Subclasses of Automata. In 11th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 226, pp. 14:1-14:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2022.14

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Henning Fernau
  • Fachbereich IV, Informatikwissenschaften, Universität Trier, Germany
Carolina Haase
  • Informatik, Hochschule Trier, Germany
Stefan Hoffmann
  • Fachbereich IV, Informatikwissenschaften, Universität Trier, Germany

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