AN NP-COMPLETE LANGUAGE ACCEPTED IN LINEAR TIME BY A ONE-TAPE TURING MACHINE

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作者
MICHEL, P
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[1] Université Paris 7, 75005 Paris
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10.1016/0304-3975(91)90054-6
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TP301 [理论、方法];
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081202 ;
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We consider one-tape nondeterministic Turing machines, i.e. with a unique worktape on which the input is written. It is known that there are nonregular languages accepted by such machines in time O(n log log n), and an NP-complete language accepted in time O(n log n). We exhibit nonregular languages accepted by such machines in time n + O(square-root n log n) or n + O(log2 n), and an NP-complete language accepted in time n + O(square-root n log n), by using a tight padding method.
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