Abstract
Infinite time Turing machines represent a model of computability that extends the operations of Turing machines to transfinite ordinal time by defining the content of each cell at limit steps to be the \(\limsup \) of the sequences of previous contents of that cell. In this paper, we study a computational model obtained by replacing the \(\limsup \) rule with an ‘eventually constant’ rule: at each limit step, the value of each cell is defined if and only if the content of that cell has stabilized before that limit step and is then equal to this constant value. We call these machines weak infinite time Turing machines (wITTMs). We study different variants of wITTMs adding multiple tapes, heads, or bidimensional tapes. We show that some of these models are equivalent to each other concerning their computational strength. We show that wITTMs decide exactly the arithmetic relations on natural numbers.
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