The tight deterministic time hierarchy

  • Authors:
  • Martin Fürer

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • STOC '82 Proceedings of the fourteenth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

Let k be a constant -&-ge; 2, and let us consider only deterministic k-tape Turing machines. We assume t2(n) -&-gt; n and t2 is computable in time t2. Then there is a language which is accepted in time t2, but not accepted in any time t1 with t1(n) -&-equil; o(t2(n)). Furthermore, we obtain a strong hierarchy (isomorphic to the rationals Q) for languages accepted in fixed space and variable time.