Sublogarithmic Space-Bounded Multi-Inkdot Alternating Turing Machines with Only Existential (Universal) States

Tsunehiro YOSHINAGA
Jianliang XU
Katsushi INOUE

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E89-A    No.5    pp.1417-1420
Publication Date: 2006/05/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.5.1417
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)
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Keyword: 
multi-inkdot Turing machines,  alternating Turing machines,  sublogarithmic space complexity,  complementation,  

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Summary: 
This paper investigates the accepting powers of two-way alternating Turing machines (2ATM's) with only existential (universal) states which have inkdots and sublogarithmic space. It is shown that for sublogarithmic space-bounded computations, (i) multi-inkdot 2ATM's with only existential states and the ones with only universal states are incomparable, (ii) k-inkdot 2ATM's are better than k-inkdot 2ATM's with only existential (universal) states, k ≥ 0, and (iii) the class of sets accepted by multi-inkdot 2ATM's with only existential (universal) states is not closed under complementation.

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