@InProceedings{ryzhikov_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2018.21, author = {Ryzhikov, Andrew and Szykula, Marek}, title = {{Finding Short Synchronizing Words for Prefix Codes}}, booktitle = {43rd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2018)}, pages = {21:1--21:14}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-086-6}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2018}, volume = {117}, editor = {Potapov, Igor and Spirakis, Paul and Worrell, James}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2018.21}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-96037}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2018.21}, annote = {Keywords: synchronizing word, mortal word, avoiding word, Huffman decoder, inapproximability} }