Work-tape placement #
This public surface exposes exact simulation theorems for TM.placeWorkTM.
The source machine occupies a contiguous middle block of physical work tapes;
prefix and suffix tapes form an arbitrary preserved frame whenever their heads
are parked away from the left-end marker.
Main results #
TM.placeWorkTM_step_placeWorkCfg— exact step with an evolving frameTM.placeWorkTM_reachesIn_placeWorkCfg_stable— exact stable-frame simulationTM.placeWorkTM_reachesIn_placeWorkParkedCfg— canonical parked simulationTM.placeWorkTM_computesInTime— same-time preservation of computation
A placed step simulates one source step while applying the prescribed idle action to the arbitrary physical extra-tape frame.
If every extra tape reads a non-left-end symbol, its idle action is a no-op and a placed step commutes through the unchanged frame.
Start-invariant extra tapes whose heads are at positive positions form a stable frame for one placed step.
A stable arbitrary frame is preserved exactly throughout a bounded source run, with no time overhead.
Start-invariant positive-head extras remain an exact frame throughout a bounded source run.
The canonical parked embedding commutes with one source step.
The canonical parked embedding simulates a bounded source run exactly.
A bounded run from the source's ordinary initial configuration lifts with the same duration. A positive run ends in the canonical parked embedding; at time zero the placed machine remains at its own ordinary initial configuration.
Work-tape placement preserves deterministic function computation with
exactly the same time bound. The surrounding blank tapes bounce off ▷
during the source machine's own first step and then remain parked.