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Sep 3, 2022 at 10:40 comment added Christian Singer @hermi Marking the symbol a at the position from which we want to move to the left as special can be done by putting a dot on top dot $\cdot$ of it. We shift the input to the right by substituting each symbol on the tape by the symbol that preceeds it (leftmost symbol is replaced by a blank). During substitution we can make sure that the turing machine only substitutes the symbol and leaves the special marker $\cdot$ in place. Example : $aa\dot{b}b \rightarrow \sqcup a\dot{a}bb$
May 31, 2021 at 5:07 comment added hermi But how can we shift the tape to the right and keep a special position?
Apr 24, 2020 at 14:08 history edited Yuval Filmus CC BY-SA 4.0
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Apr 24, 2020 at 6:48 history answered Yuval Filmus CC BY-SA 4.0