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Determinism versus Nondeterminism for Linear Time RAMs with Memory Restrictions

✍ Scribed by Miklós Ajtai


Book ID
102587345
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
317 KB
Volume
65
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-0000

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✦ Synopsis


Our computational model is a random access machine with n read only input registers each containing c log n bits of information and a read and write memory. We measure the time by the number of accesses to the input registers. We show that for all k there is an e > 0 so that if n is sufficiently large then the elements distinctness problem cannot be solved in time kn with en bits of read and write memory; that is, there is no machine with this value of the parameters which decides whether there are two different input registers whose contents are identical.