Space-Bounded Simulation of Multitape Turing Machines
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MIT-LCS-TM-148.pdf
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Author(s) •
Adleman, Leonard M.
Loui, Michael C.
Date Issued
January 1980
Series/Report no.
MIT-LCS-TM-148
Abstract
A new proof of a theorem of Hopcroft, Paul, and Valiant is presented: every deterministic multitape Turing machine of time complexity T(n) can be simulated by a deterministic Turing machine of space complexity T(n)/log T(n). The proof includes an overlap argument.
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