Reset words for commutative and solvable
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Igor Rystsov
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Article
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1997
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Elsevier Science
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English
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A reset word takes all states of a finite automaton to a single state. In this paper, it is shown that the length of the shortest reset word for a solvable automaton with n states is at most n -1 and this bound is reachable.