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We show a method of maintaining a distributed counter by 2-dimensional deterministic Turing machines with at least two tapes. Our method yields a tight time hierarchy for these machines solving an open problem posed by M. Fürer ([Fü1],[Fü2]). Moreover, we improve the best known time hierarchy theorem for one-tape off-line deterministic TMs; among others we show that this hierarchy is tight for functions bounded by polynomials.
This work was supported by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung while the author was visited the Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Informatik, Institut für Informatik, Universität Würzburg, 8700 Würzburg, Germany
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Loryś, K. (1992). New time hierarchy results for deterministic TMS. In: Finkel, A., Jantzen, M. (eds) STACS 92. STACS 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 577. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55210-3_194
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