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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2020.54

The Degree of a Finite Set of Words

Authors: Dominique Perrin and Andrew Ryzhikov

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 182, 40th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2020)

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We generalize the notions of the degree and composition from uniquely decipherable codes to arbitrary finite sets of words. We prove that if X = Y∘Z is a composition of finite sets of words with Y complete, then d(X) = d(Y) ⋅ d(Z), where d(T) is the degree of T. We also show that a finite set is synchronizing if and only if its degree equals one. This is done by considering, for an arbitrary finite set X of words, the transition monoid of an automaton recognizing X^* with multiplicities. We prove a number of results for such monoids, which generalize corresponding results for unambiguous monoids of relations.

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Dominique Perrin and Andrew Ryzhikov. The Degree of a Finite Set of Words. In 40th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 182, pp. 54:1-54:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{perrin_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2020.54,
  author =	{Perrin, Dominique and Ryzhikov, Andrew},
  title =	{{The Degree of a Finite Set of Words}},
  booktitle =	{40th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2020)},
  pages =	{54:1--54:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-174-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{182},
  editor =	{Saxena, Nitin and Simon, Sunil},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2020.54},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-132952},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2020.54},
  annote =	{Keywords: synchronizing set, degree of a set, group of a set, monoid of relations}
}

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