Characterizing PSPACE with shallow non-confluent P systems

Alberto Leporati; Luca Manzoni; Giancarlo Mauri; Antonio E. Porreca; Claudio Zandron

doi:10.1007/s41965-019-00011-4

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Characterizing PSPACE with shallow non-confluent P systems

Alberto Leporati·Luca Manzoni·Giancarlo Mauri·Antonio E. Porreca·Claudio Zandron

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In P systems with active membranes, the question of understanding the power of non-confluence within a polynomial time bound is still an open problem. It is known that, for shallow P systems, that is, with only one level of nesting, non-confluence allows them to solve conjecturally harder problems than confluent P systems, thus reaching PSPACE. Here we show that PSPACE is not only a bound, but actually an exact characterization. Therefore, the power endowed by non-confluence to shallow P systems is equal to the power gained by confluent P systems when non-elementary membrane division and polynomial depth are allowed, thus suggesting a connection between the roles of non-confluence and nesting depth.

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Alberto Leporati, Luca Manzoni, Giancarlo Mauri, Antonio E. Porreca, Claudio Zandron. 2019-02-22. Characterizing PSPACE with shallow non-confluent P systems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41965-019-00011-4

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