Chapter 5: 1E (page 239)
Show that is undecidable.
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We will show that is undecidable.
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Chapter 5: 1E (page 239)
Show that is undecidable.
We will show that is undecidable.
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Question: Consider the problem of determining whether a Turing machine M on an input w ever attempts to move its head left at any point during its computation on w. Formulate this problem as a language and show that it is decidable.
Define a two-headed finite automaton (2DFA) to be a deterministic finite automaton that has two read-only, bidirectional heads that start at the left-hand end of the input tape and can be independently controlled to move in either direction. The tape of a 2DFA is finite and is just large enough to contain the input plus two additional blank tape cells, one on the left-hand end and one on the right-hand end, that serve as delimiters. A 2DFA accepts its input by entering a special accept state. For example, a 2DFA can recognize the language .
Show that the Post Correspondence Problem is decidable over the unary alphabet.
Let be the tape alphabet for all in this problem. Define the busy beaver function as follows. For each value of , consider all -state that halt when started with a blank tape. Let be the maximum number of that remain on the tape among all of these machines. Show that is not a computable function.
Find a match in the following instance of the Post Correspondence Problem.
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