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Decision Problems For Turing Machines

Logic in Computer Science 2009-11-05 v1 Computational Complexity Logic

Abstract

We answer two questions posed by Castro and Cucker, giving the exact complexities of two decision problems about cardinalities of omega-languages of Turing machines. Firstly, it is D2(Σ11)D_2(\Sigma_1^1)-complete to determine whether the omega-language of a given Turing machine is countably infinite, where D2(Σ11)D_2(\Sigma_1^1) is the class of 2-differences of Σ11\Sigma_1^1-sets. Secondly, it is Σ11\Sigma_1^1-complete to determine whether the omega-language of a given Turing machine is uncountable.

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@article{arxiv.0909.0736,
  title  = {Decision Problems For Turing Machines},
  author = {Olivier Finkel and Dominique Lecomte},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.0736},
  year   = {2009}
}

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