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A theory of one-tape (one-head) linear-time Turing machines is essentially different from its polynomial-time counterpart since these machines are closely related to finite state automata. This paper discusses structural-complexity issues…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-07-20 Kohtaro Tadaki , Tomoyuki Yamakami , Jack C. H. Lin

We describe various computational models based initially, but not exclusively, on that of the Turing machine, that are generalized to allow for transfinitely many computational steps. Variants of such machines are considered that have…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Philip Welch

Infinite time Turing machines extend the operation of ordinary Turing machines into transfinite ordinal time. By doing so, they provide a natural model of infinitary computability, a theoretical setting for the analysis of the power and…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel David Hamkins

Infinite time Turing machines (ITTMs) have been introduced by Hamkins and Lewis in their seminal article arXiv:math/9808093. The strength of the model comes from a limit rule which allows the ITTM to compute through ordinal stages. This…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Olivier Bournez , Olivier Finkel , Johan Girardot

This work establishes a rigorous theoretical foundation for analyzing deep learning systems by leveraging Infinite Time Turing Machines (ITTMs), which extend classical computation into transfinite ordinal steps. Using ITTMs, we reinterpret…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Rukmal Weerawarana , Maxwell Braun

It is well-known that one-tape Turing machines working in linear time are no more powerful than finite automata, namely they recognize exactly the class of regular languages. We prove that it is not decidable if a one-tape machine works in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Bruno Guillon , Giovanni Pighizzini , Luca Prigioniero , Daniel Průša

Infinite time Turing machines with only one tape are in many respects fully as powerful as their multi-tape cousins. In particular, the two models of machine give rise to the same class of decidable sets, the same degree structure and, at…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel David Hamkins , Daniel Evan Seabold

In this paper, we study strengthenings of Infinite Times Blum-Shub-Smale-Machines (ITBMs) that were proposed by Seyfferth in [14] and Welch in [15] obtained by modifying the behaviour of the machines at limit stages. In particular, we study…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Merlin Carl , Lorenzo Galeotti

Multiway Turing machines (also known as nondeterministic Turing machines or NDTMs) with explicit, simple rules are studied. Even very simple rules are found to generate complex behavior, characterized by complex multiway graphs, that can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Stephen Wolfram

Infinite time Turing machines extend the classical Turing machine concept to transfinite ordinal time, thereby providing a natural model of infinitary computability that sheds light on the power and limitations of supertask algorithms.

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel David Hamkins

For the additive real BSS machines using only constants 0 and 1 and order tests we consider the corresponding Turing reducibility and characterize some semi-decidable decision problems over the reals. In order to refine, step-by-step, a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-03-27 Christine Gaßner

This paper extends our paper \cite{C2} for the conference ``Computability in Europe'' 2022. After Infinite Time Turing Machines (ITTM) were introduced in Hamkins and Lewis \cite{HL}, a number of machine models of computability have been…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Merlin Carl

Finite Turing computation has a fundamental symmetry between inputs, outputs, programs, time, and storage space. Standard models of transfinite computational break this symmetry; we consider ways to recover it and study the resulting model…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Lorenzo Galeotti , Ethan S. Lewis , Benedikt Löwe

By considering a discrete tape where each cell corresponds to an integer, thus to a possible sum, a pseudo-polynomial solution can be given to subset sum problem, which is an NP-complete problem and a cornerstone application for this study,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Yigit Oktar

We study clockability for Ordinal Turing Machines (OTMs). In particular, we show that, in contrast to the situation for ITTMs, admissible ordinals can be OTM-clockable, that $\Sigma_{2}$-admissible ordinals are never OTM-clockable and that…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Merlin Carl

Constant bit-size Transformers are known to be Turing complete, but existing constructions require $\Omega(s(n))$ chain-of-thought (CoT) steps per simulated Turing machine (TM) step, leading to impractical reasoning lengths. In this paper,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Qian Li , Yuyi Wang

We study initial value problems having dynamics ruled by discontinuous ordinary differential equations with the property of possessing a unique solution. We identify a precise class of such systems that we call solvable intitial value…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Olivier Bournez , Riccardo Gozzi

Single-tape nondeterministic Turing machines that are allowed to replace the symbol in each tape cell only when it is scanned for the first time are also known as 1-limited automata. These devices characterize, exactly as finite automata,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Giovanni Pighizzini , Luca Prigioniero

A variant of Turing machines is introduced where the tape is replaced by a single tree which can be manipulated in a style akin to purely functional programming. This yields two benefits: first, the extra structure on the tape can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Arnaud Spiwack

We study a generalized version of reversal bounded Turing machines where, apart from several tapes on which the number of head reversals is bounded by r(n), there are several further tapes on which head reversals remain unrestricted, but…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andre Hernich , Nicole Schweikardt
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