Space and time complexity for infinite time Turing machines

We consider notions of space by Winter [21, 22]. We answer several open questions about these notions, among them whether low space complexity implies low time complexity (it does not) and whether one of the equalities P=PSPACE, P$_{+}=$PSPACE$_{+}$ and P$_{++}=$PSPACE$_{++}$ holds for ITTMs (all three are false). We also show various separation results between space complexity classes for ITTMs. This considerably expands our earlier observations on the topic in Section 7.2.2 of Carl (2019, Ordinal Computability: An Introduction to Infinitary Machines), which appear here as Lemma $6$ up to Corollary $9$.

Turing Computations On Ordinals

We define the notion ofordinal computabilityby generalizing standard Turingcomputability on tapes of length ω to computations on tapes of arbitrary ordinal length. We show that a set of ordinals is ordinal computable from a finite set of ordinal parameters if and only if it is an element of Gödel'sconstructible universeL. This characterization can be used to prove the generalized continuum hypothesis inL.