A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Computational power of two stacks with restricted communication




AuthorsKarhumaki Juhani, Kunc Michal, Okhotin Alexander

PublisherACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE

Publication year2010

JournalInformation and Computation

Journal name in sourceINFORMATION AND COMPUTATION

Journal acronymINFORM COMPUT

Number in series9

Volume208

Issue9

First page 1060

Last page1089

Number of pages30

ISSN0890-5401

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2009.07.001


Abstract
Rewriting systems working on words with a center marker are considered. The derivation is done by erasing a prefix or a suffix and then adding a prefix or a suffix. This models a communication of two stacks according to a fixed protocol defined by the choice of rewriting rules. The paper systematically considers different cases of these systems and determines their expressive power. Several cases are identified where very restricted communication surprisingly yields computational universality. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.



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