updated paper
authorChristian Urban <christian dot urban at kcl dot ac dot uk>
Thu, 07 Feb 2013 03:37:02 +0000
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updated paper
Paper/Paper.thy
paper.pdf
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   we can strengthen this result slightly by observing that @{text m} is at most
   2 in the output tape. This observation allows one to construct a UTM that works
   entirely on the left-tape by composing it with a machine that drags the tape
-  two cells to the right. A corolary is that one-sided Turing machines (where the
-  tape only extends to the right) are as powerful as our two-sided Turing machines. 
+  two cells to the right. A corollary is that one-sided Turing machines (where the
+  tape only extends to the right) are computationally as powerful as our two-sided 
+  Turing machines. So our undecidability proof for the halting problem extends
+  also to one-sided Turing machines, which is needed for example in order to
+  formalise the undecidability of Wang's tiling problem \cite{Robinson71}.
 
-  While formalising the chapter about universal Turing machines in \cite{Boolos87}
+  While formalising the chapter about universal Turing machines in \cite{Boolos87},
   we noticed that they use their definition about what function Turing machines
   calculate. They write in Chapter 3 \cite[Page 32]{Boolos87}:
 
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