Four small universal turing machines

  • Authors:
  • Turlough Neary;Damien Woods

  • Affiliations:
  • TASS, Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland;Department of Computer Science, University College Cork, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • MCU'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Machines, computations, and universality
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present small polynomial time universal Turing machines with state-symbol pairs of (5, 5), (6, 4), (9, 3) and (18, 2). These machines simulate our new variant of tag system, the bi-tag system and are the smallest known universal Turing machines with 5, 4, 3 and 2-symbols respectively. Our 5-symbol machine uses the same number of instructions (22) as the smallest known universal Turing machine by Rogozhin.