The Space Complexity of Generating Tent Codes

Abstract: This paper is motivated by a question whether it is possible to calculate a chaotic sequence efficiently, e.g., is it possible to get the $n$-th bit of a bit sequence generated by a chaotic map, such as $\beta$-expansion, tent map and logistic map in $o(n)$ time/space? This paper gives an affirmative answer to the question about the space complexity of a tent map. We prove that a tent code of $n$-bits with an initial condition uniformly at random is exactly generated in $O(\log^2 n)$ space in expectation.