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D. Perrin and M. P. Schutzenberger, “Synchronizing Prefix Codes and Automata, and the Road Coloring Problem,” Symbolic Dynamics and Applications, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 135, 1992, pp. 295-318. doi:10.1090/conm/135/1185096

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• TITLE: Some New Features and Algorithms for the Study of DFA

  AUTHORS: Avraham N. Trahtman

  KEYWORDS: Finite Automaton; Synchronizing Word; Algorithm; Visualization

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Discrete Mathematics, Vol.2 No.2, April 27, 2012

  ABSTRACT: The work presents some new algorithms realized recently in the package TESTAS. The package decides whether or not DFA is synchronizing, several procedures find relatively short synchronizing words and a synchronizing word of the minimal length. We check whether or not a directed graph has a road coloring that turns the graph into a synchronizing deterministic finite automaton (DFA). The algorithm finds the coloring if it exists. Otherwise, the k-synchronizing road coloring can be found. We use a linear visualization of the graph of an automaton based on its structural properties.