@InProceedings{ferens_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.46, author = {Ferens, Robert and Szyku{\l}a, Marek and Vorel, Vojt\v{e}ch}, title = {{Lower Bounds on Avoiding Thresholds}}, booktitle = {46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2021)}, pages = {46:1--46:14}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-201-3}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2021}, volume = {202}, editor = {Bonchi, Filippo and Puglisi, Simon J.}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.46}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-144869}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.46}, annote = {Keywords: avoiding word, \v{C}ern\'{y} conjecture, rank conjecture, reset threshold, reset word, synchronizing automaton, synchronizing word} }