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Smaller Solutions For The Firing Squad, Amber Settle, Janos Simon
Smaller Solutions For The Firing Squad, Amber Settle, Janos Simon
Amber Settle
In this paper we improve the bounds on the complexity of solutions to the firing squad problem, also known as the firing synchronization problem. In the firing synchronization problem we consider a one-dimensional array of n identical finite automata. Initially all automata are in the same state except for one automaton designated as the initiator for the synchronization. Our results hold for the original problem, where the initiator may be located at either endpoint, and for the variant where any one of the automata may be the initiator, called the generalized problem. In both cases, the goal is to define …