The positions of the QBF machine's tape, concretely #
Where the head is, and what follows what: the left marker is the lowest position, the cell of the least element follows it, the right marker follows the cell of the greatest element, and cells are ordered as their elements are.
Every fact about the tags here is a decide: DescriptiveComplexity.AltQbf.AltBase
does not depend on k, and a tag's sweep index only ever refines the order
inside a family (DescriptiveComplexity.AltQbf.altTag_lt_of_base_lt). That is what the
pair-shaped tag of DescriptiveComplexity.Problems.Machine.AltTape buys.
The file ends with the determinism of the machine away from the guessing
choice, which is what makes the ⇐ half of correctness a corollary of
DescriptiveComplexity.AltQbf.altTr_unique rather than a second induction.
The three kinds of position #
The tape order #
A lower base tag is a lower tag, whatever the sweep indices: the order on tags is the base tag first.
Dependency graph
Singling the markers and the cells out #
The order between the three kinds #
Dependency graph
Dependency graph
Dependency graph
The head's first and last moves of a sweep #
The greatest element of the instance: the last cell of the tape.