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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

We perform certain alternating binomial summations with parameters that occur in the analysis of algorithms. A combination of integral and special function and special number representations is used. The results are sufficiently general to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark W. Coffey

The power of real-time Turing machines using sublinear space is investigated. In contrast to a claim appearing in the literature, such machines can accept non-regular languages, even if working in deterministic mode. While maintaining a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Holger Petersen

We give the first two algorithms to enumerate all binary words of $\{0,1\}^\ell$ (like Gray codes) while ensuring that the delay and the auxiliary space is independent from $\ell$, i.e., constant time for each word, and constant memory in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Antoine Amarilli , Claire David , Nadime Francis , Victor Marsault , Mikaël Monet , Yann Strozecki

We announce two breakthrough results concerning important questions in the Theory of Computational Complexity. In this expository paper, a systematic and comprehensive geometric characterization of the Subset Sum Problem is presented. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Srinivas Balaji Bollepalli

We consider the solution of the subset sum problem based on a parallel computer consisting of self-propelled biological agents moving in a nanostructured network that encodes the NP-complete task in its geometry. We develop an approximate…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Michael Konopik , Till Korten , Heiner Linke , Eric Lutz

Using nonstandard analysis, we will extend the classical Turing machines into the internal Turing machines. The internal Turing machines have the capability to work with infinite ($*$-finite) number of bits while keeping the finite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ken Loo

There are numerous ways to represent real numbers. We may use, e.g., Cauchy sequences, Dedekind cuts, numerical base-10 expansions, numerical base-2 expansions and continued fractions. If we work with full Turing computability, all these…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-03-30 Ivan Georgiev , Lars Kristiansen , Frank Stephan

Models of computations over the integers are equivalent from a computability and complexity theory point of view by the Church-Turing thesis. It is not possible to unify discrete-time models over the reals. The situation is unclear but…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Manon Blanc , Olivier Bournez

We study a polynomial-time decision problem in which each input encodes a depth-$N$ causal execution in which a single non-duplicable token must traverse an ordered sequence of steps, revealing at most $O(1)$ bits of routing information at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Jing-Yuan Wei

In this paper we study the Product Partition Problem (PPP), i.e. we are given a set of $n$ natural numbers represented on $m$ bits each and we are asked if a subset exists such that the product of the numbers in the subset equals the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Marius Costandin

Symbolic Mathematical tasks such as integration often require multiple well-defined steps and understanding of sub-tasks to reach a solution. To understand Transformers' abilities in such tasks in a fine-grained manner, we deviate from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Vishesh Agarwal , Somak Aditya , Navin Goyal

We show that any submodular minimization (SM) problem defined on a linear constraint set with constraints having up to two variables per inequality, are 2-approximable in polynomial time. If the constraints are monotone (the two variables…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Dorit S. Hochbaum

It is well known that the kind of P systems involved in the definition of the P conjecture is able to solve problems in the complexity class $\mathbf{P}$ by leveraging the uniformity condition. Here we show that these systems are indeed…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Alberto Leporati , Luca Manzoni , Giancarlo Mauri , Antonio E. Porreca , Claudio Zandron

The works presented in this habilitation concern the algorithmics of polynomials. This is a central topic in computer algebra, with numerous applications both within and outside the field - cryptography, error-correcting codes, etc. For…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Bruno Grenet

We describe a dynamic programming algorithm for exact counting and exact uniform sampling of matrices with specified row and column sums. The algorithm runs in polynomial time when the column sums are bounded. Binary or non-negative integer…

Computation · Statistics 2011-04-05 Jeffrey W. Miller , Matthew T. Harrison

The $\textbf{P}$ vs. $\textbf{NP}$ problem is an important problem in contemporary mathematics and theoretical computer science. Many proofs have been proposed to this problem. This paper proposes a theoretic proof for $\textbf{P}$ vs.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Changlin Wan , Zhongzhi Shi

The theory of computer science is based around Universal Turing Machines (UTMs): abstract machines able to execute all possible algorithms. Modern digital computers are physical embodiments of UTMs. The nondeterministic polynomial (NP) time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Andrew Currin , Konstantin Korovin , Maria Ababi , Katherine Roper , Douglas B. Kell , Philip J. Day , Ross D. King

Discrete translational symmetry plays a fundamental role in condensed matter physics and lattice gauge theories, enabling the analysis of systems that would otherwise be intractable. Despite this, many open problems remain. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Joris Kattemölle , Guido Burkard

The Curry-Howard correspondence is often called the proofs-as-programs result. I offer a generalization of this result, something which may be called machines as programs. Utilizing this insight, I introduce two new Turing Machines called…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Jonathan J. Mize