Subset Synchronization and Careful Synchronization of Binary Finite Automata

Vojtěch Vorel
2016 International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science  
We present a strongly exponential lower bound that applies both to the subset synchronization threshold for binary deterministic automata and to the careful synchronization threshold for binary partial automata. In the later form, the result finishes the research initiated by Martyugin (2013) . Moreover, we show that both the thresholds remain strongly exponential even if restricted to strongly connected binary automata. In addition, we apply our methods to computational complexity. Existence
more » ... a subset reset word is known to be PSPACE-complete; we show that this holds even under the restriction to strongly connected binary automata. The results apply also to the corresponding thresholds in two more general settings: D1-and D3-directable nondeterministic automata and composition sequences over finite domains.
doi:10.1142/s0129054116500167 fatcat:6vsnh7chtrenviw72e4x5nxhxq