DocumentCode
2200309
Title
Alternating time versus deterministic time: a separation
Author
Gupta, Sanjay
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA
fYear
1993
fDate
18-21 May 1993
Firstpage
266
Lastpage
277
Abstract
It is shown that only two alternations are sufficient to achieve a log*t (n ) speed-up of deterministic Turing machines. Using this speed-up it is shown that for each time-constructible function t (n ), two alternations are strictly more powerful than deterministic time
Keywords
Turing machines; computational complexity; deterministic automata; alternating time; deterministic Turing machines; deterministic time; time-constructible function; Complexity theory; Computational modeling; Legged locomotion; Polynomials; Turing machines;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Structure in Complexity Theory Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the Eighth Annual
Conference_Location
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN
0-8186-4070-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SCT.1993.336520
Filename
336520
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