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Space complexity of alternating Turing machines

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Abstract

We state that the minimal space measurement requirements for the recognition of non-regular languages are:

  1. 1)

    in the case of two-way alternating Turing machines O(logloglogn),

  2. 2)

    in the case of two-way nondeterministic Turing machines O(loglogn),

  3. 3)

    in the case of one-way alternating Turing machines O(loglogn).

In the cases 2) and 3) the bound O(loglogn) is tight.

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  1. Computing Center, Latvian State University, Riga, USSR

    Māris Alberts

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Lothar Budach

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Alberts, M. (1985). Space complexity of alternating Turing machines. In: Budach, L. (eds) Fundamentals of Computation Theory. FCT 1985. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 199. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0028785

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