Minimizing access pointers into trees and arrays (Q795505)

Multihead tree machines and multihead multidimensional machines are used to develop new methods for minimizing access pointers into trees and arrays. Every multihead tree machine of time complexity t(n) can be simulated on-line by a tree machine with only two access heads in time \(O(t(n) \log t(n)/\log \log t(n)).\) Every multihead e-dimensional machine of time complexity t(n) can be simulated on-line by a d-dimensional machine with two access heads in time \(O(t(n)^{1+1/d-1/de} \log t(n)).\) The simulation for trees is optimal.