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We know that linear bounded automatons accept context-sensitive grammars.

Now suppose that we modify the LBA such that any location of the tape except the input part can be changed.What language does this automaton accept?

I think it is as strong as the standard Turing machine because we can copy the input part somewhere else and work with it like a semi-infinite Turing machine so that its tape is limited from the first symbol of the input that we copied.So it accepts recursively enumerable languages.Is this correct?

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  • $\begingroup$ Well actually when you ask a question and don't mention what you've done for it so far they say this is homework and we don't answer homework questions, so I have to mention my idea about it to show I've worked on it. $\endgroup$ – Winston Jun 21 '17 at 22:02
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any location except i/p part means

(total unbounded tape area - tape area that includes i/p string)

= (infinity length - finite length) as we know i/p string length is always finite

= infinity length

in the definition of linear bounded automata it is stated that the tape can be used as a function of the input string length.but here the portion that can be used is of infinite length which is obviously not a function of the input string length.So it acts as a turing machine.

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