On resetting DLBA's

A long-standing open problem in complexity theory is whether NSPACE(n) is equa l to DSPACE(n) . NSPACE(n) (DSPACE(n)) is the class of languages accepted by linear-space nondeterministic (deterministic) multitape Turing machines . By Savitch's result [SAVI70], we know that NSPACE(n 1/2 ) is contained in DSPACE(n) . However, it is not known whether this result is optimal, i .e ., the following question i s open :