English

A Formalization and Proof of the Extended Church-Turing Thesis -Extended Abstract-

Logic in Computer Science 2012-08-01 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We prove the Extended Church-Turing Thesis: Every effective algorithm can be efficiently simulated by a Turing machine. This is accomplished by emulating an effective algorithm via an abstract state machine, and simulating such an abstract state machine by a random access machine, representing data as a minimal term graph.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1207.7148,
  title  = {A Formalization and Proof of the Extended Church-Turing Thesis -Extended Abstract-},
  author = {Nachum Dershowitz and Evgenia Falkovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.7148},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

In Proceedings DCM 2011, arXiv:1207.6821