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Simulating One-Tape Time in Two-Fifths-Power Space

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OpenAI Mathopenai-math/Simulating-One-Tape-Time-in-Two-Fifths-Power-SpaceSep 25, 2026cs.CCAI-generatedscore 0

We show that a fixed deterministic Turing machine with one writable tape and head can be simulated in $O(T^{2/5}\mathop{\mathrm{polylog}}\nolimits (T+2))$ work-space bits when a binary time cap T ≥ 2 is supplied. The simulator computes the finite-control and halting outcome by time T ; its running time is unrestricted. The result allows a fixed number of read-only input heads and requires a fixed accessor that supplies every initial writable and read-only symbol within distance T of the relevant head origin in polylogarithmic space. This improves the square-root space exponent for one-tape…

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