Linear Time Simulation of Multihead Turing Machines with Head-to-Head Jumps

The main result of this paper shows that, given a Turing machine with several read-write heads per tape and which has the additional one move shift operation "shift a given head to the position of some other given head", one can effectively construct a multitape Turing machine with a single read-write head per tape which simulates it in linear time; i.e. if the original machine operates in time T(n), then the simulating machine will operate in time cT(n), for some constant c.