no it's not,
more precisely, 0 \leq k \leq |\Sigma | - 1, where
\Sigma is the alphabet.
so S[i,j,k] means at time i, the contents of tape square j is symbol s_{k}
and 0 \leq i \leq p(n) and -p(n) \leq j \leq p(n)
where n is input's length,
lets say the input string is x, then x...