Home
Scholarly Works
Unambiguous Functions in Logarithmic Space
Journal article

Unambiguous Functions in Logarithmic Space

Abstract

We investigate different variants of unambiguity in the context of computing multi-valued functions. We propose a modification to the standard computation models of Turing machines and configuration graphs, which allows for unambiguity-preserving composition. We define a notion of reductions (based on function composition), which allows nondeterminism but controls its level of ambiguity. In light of this framework we establish reductions between different variants of path counting problems. We obtain improvements of results related to inductive counting.

Authors

Herman G; Soltys M

Journal

Fundamenta Informaticae, Vol. 114, No. 2, pp. 129–147

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Publication Date

April 30, 2012

DOI

10.3233/fi-2012-621

ISSN

0169-2968
View published work (Non-McMaster Users)

Contact the Experts team