A Representation Theorem for Primitive Recursive Algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Philippe Andary;Bruno Patrou;Pierre Valarcher

  • Affiliations:
  • (Correspd.) University of Rouen, Computer Scicence Dept., LITIS, Technopole Madrillet, France. Philippe.Andary, Bruno.Patrou@univ-rouen.fr;University of Rouen, Computer Scicence Dept., LITIS, Technopole Madrillet, France. Philippe.Andary, Bruno.Patrou@univ-rouen.fr;Université Paris Est Créteil, LACL, IUT Fontainebleau/Senart, France. pierre.valarcher@u-pec.fr

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We formalize the algorithms computing primitive recursive (PR) functions as the abstract state machines (ASMs) whose running length is computable by a PR function. Then we show that there exists a programming language (implementing only PR functions) by which it is possible to implement any one of the previously defined algorithms for the PR functions in such a way that their complexity is preserved.