Tape head visitation and space-usage lemmas #
This file collects lemmas about the set of positions visited by a work-tape head
(MultiTapeTM.visitedByTapeHead) and the resulting space-usage measures
(MultiTapeTM.spaceUsedByTape, MultiTapeTM.spaceUsed) and how the tape head positions
influence the cells that are modified on a tape.
If the work tape head is not at position z, then the tape does not change there.
The set of positions visited by a tape head is monotone in the number of steps.
Starting from configuration cfg, every position between the initial head position of tape
i and the one after t steps is part of the "visited set" at step t.
If a work tape cell is changed after t steps, it must have been visited by the tape head.
Every position visited by the head of tape i lies within spaceUsedByTape … i of the
head's starting position.
Every non-blank cell on work tape i lies within spaceUsedByTape … i t of the origin.
The number of cells touched by a single work tape grows by at most one each step.
The space used by a single tape is monotone in the number of steps.