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We look at stateless multihead finite automata in their two-way and one-way, deterministic and nondeterministic variations. The transition of a k-head automaton depends solely on the symbols currently scanned by its k heads, and every such transition moves each head one cell left or right, or instructs it to stay. We show that stateless (k + 4)-head two-way automata are more powerful than stateless k-head two-way automata. In the one-way case, we prove a tighter result: stateless (k + 1)-head one-way automata are more powerful than stateless k-head one-way automata. Finally, we show that the emptiness problem for stateless 2-head two-way automata is undecidable.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 581-593 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Theoretical Computer Science |
| Volume | 411 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - 6 Jan 2010 |
ID: 41141806