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Sublinear-Space P Systems with Active Membranes

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Membrane Computing (CMC 2012)

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We introduce a weak uniformity condition for families of P systems, DLOGTIME uniformity, inspired by Boolean circuit complexity. We then prove that DLOGTIME-uniform families of P systems with active membranes working in logarithmic space (not counting their input) can simulate logarithmic-space deterministic Turing machines.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Viale Sarca 336/14, 20126, Milano, Italy

    Antonio E. Porreca, Alberto Leporati, Giancarlo Mauri & Claudio Zandron

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  1. Department of Algorithms and Their Applications, Eötvös Loránd University, , ,, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, 1117, Budapest, Hungary

    Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, 211 Portobello Street, S1 4DP, Sheffield, UK

    Marian Gheorghe

  3. Leiden Center of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333, Leiden, CA, The Netherlands

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  4. Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), Leminkaisenkatu 14, 20520, Turku, Finland

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  5. Department of Computer Science, University of Debrecen, Kassai út 26, 4028, Debrecen, Hungary

    György Vaszil

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Porreca, A.E., Leporati, A., Mauri, G., Zandron, C. (2013). Sublinear-Space P Systems with Active Membranes. In: Csuhaj-Varjú, E., Gheorghe, M., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A., Vaszil, G. (eds) Membrane Computing. CMC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7762. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36751-9_23

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