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Hierarchies of turing machines with restricted tape alphabet size

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It is shown that for any real constants b>a>=0, multitape Turing machines operating in space L"1(n)=[bn^r] can accept more sets than those operating inspace L"2( n)=[an^ r] provided the number of work tapes and tape alphabet size are held fixed.
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This article is published in Journal of Computer and System Sciences.The article was published on 1975-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Multitape Turing machine & NSPACE.

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Relating refined space complexity classes

TL;DR: Noncontainment results for both nondeterministic and deterministic classes of both binary and unary languages are obtained.
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Techniques for separating space complexity classes

TL;DR: Diagonalization, cardinality, and recursive padding arguments are used to separate the Turing machine space complexity classes obtained by bounding space, number of worktape symbols, and number ofWorktape heads.
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Two-way automata and length-preserving homomorphisms

TL;DR: For two-way finite automata, the closure under length-preserving homomorphisms is much more powerful than nondeterminism, and two conjectures about the state-complexity of unary languages are disproved.
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Two-dimensional finite automata and unacceptable functions

TL;DR: This note first introduces the concept of “functions acceptable by two-dimensional finite automata” and then gives several functions unacceptable by three-dimensional infinite automata.
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Improved Time and Space Hierarchies of One-Tape Off-Line TMs

TL;DR: Improved time and space hierarchies of one-tape off-line Turing Machines (TMs) are presented, which substantially improves the Hartmanis and Stearns' (log t 1(n))-gap which survived more than 30 years.
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Formal Languages and Their Relation to Automata

TL;DR: The theory of formal languages as a coherent theory is presented and its relationship to automata theory is made explicit, including the Turing machine and certain advanced topics in language theory.
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Hierarchies of memory limited computations

TL;DR: The computational complexity of binary sequences as measured by the rapidity of their generation by multitape Turing machines is investigated and a "translational" method which escapes some of the limitations of earlier approaches leads to a refinement of the established hierarchy.
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A Hierarchy Theorem for Polynomial-Space Recognition

TL;DR: It is shown that nondeterministic such machines with a read-only input and a single worktape operating within space are more powerful than those with m symbols.