Real-Time Definable Languages

  • Authors:
  • Arnold L. Rosenberg

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 1967

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Abstract

The closure properties of the class of languages defined by real-time, online, multi-tape Turing machines are proved. The results obtained are, for the most part, negative and, as one would expect, asymmetric. It is shown that the results remain valid for a broad class of real-time devices. Finally, the position of the class of real-time definable languages in the “classical” linguistic hierarchy is established.