Maze recognizing automata and nondeterministic tape complexity

  • Authors:
  • Walter J. Savitch

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  • Year:
  • 1973

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Abstract

A new device called a maze recognizing automaton is introduced. The following two statements are shown to be equivalent. (i) There is a maze recognizing automaton that accepts precisely the threadable mazes. (ii) Every nondeterministic L(n)-tape bounded Turing machine can be simulated by a deterministic L(n)-tape bounded Turing machine, provided L(n)=log"2n.