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Reset threshold of Martyugin’s two‑letter Eulerian automata

Show that for odd n, the reset threshold of the two‑letter Eulerian synchronizing automata proposed by Pavel Martyugin equals (n^2−5)/2.

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Background

Within Eulerian automata with two letters, Martyugin proposed (unpublished) a family that appears to have especially large reset thresholds. Szykuła–Vorel’s exhaustive searches confirmed the asserted threshold for n=5,7,9,11 and found uniqueness among automata of those sizes.

Despite these confirmations for small n, the general statement for all odd n remains unproved, and the best rigorous lower bounds for this class are weaker.

References

In the class of Eulerian automata with two letters, Pavel Martyugin (unpublished) proposed a series of n-state synchronizing automata (with n odd) conjectured to have a reset threshold of \frac{n2-5}2. The exhaustive search experiments in confirmed Martyugin's conjecture for n = 5, 7, 9, 11; moreover, for each of these values of n, Martyugin's automaton turned out to be the only one with reset threshold \frac{n2-5}2. However, in the general case the conjecture remains unproved and the greatest lower bound for the maximum reset threshold of Eulerian synchronizing automata with two letters and n states (with n odd) currently available in the literature is \frac{n2-3n+ 4}{2} from.

List of Results on the Černý Conjecture and Reset Thresholds for Synchronizing Automata (2508.15655 - Volkov, 21 Aug 2025) in Section A6, “Eulerian automata,” Comments