JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 3(4): 247-278, doi: 10.3217/jucs-003-04-0247
The Linear Time Hierarchy Theorems for Abstract State Machines and RAMs
expand article infoAndreas Blass, Yuri Gurevich§
‡ Partially supported by NSF grant DMS--9505118. Mathematics Department, University of Michigan§ University of Michigan, United States of America
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Abstract
We prove the Linear Time Hierarchy Theorems for random access machines and Gurevich abstract state machines. One long-term goal of this line or research is to prove lower bounds for natural linear time problems.