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Completeness and Incompleteness of Synchronous Kleene Algebra

Wagemaker, J; Bonsangue, M; Kappé, T; Rot, J; Silva, A; (2019) Completeness and Incompleteness of Synchronous Kleene Algebra. In: Mathematics of Program Construction. (pp. pp. 385-413). Springer: Cham, Switzerland. Green open access

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Abstract

Synchronous Kleene algebra (SKA), an extension of Kleene algebra (KA), was proposed by Prisacariu as a tool for reasoning about programs that may execute synchronously, i.e., in lock-step. We provide a countermodel witnessing that the axioms of SKA are incomplete w.r.t. its language semantics, by exploiting a lack of interaction between the synchronous product operator and the Kleene star. We then propose an alternative set of axioms for SKA, based on Salomaa’s axiomatisation of regular languages, and show that these provide a sound and complete characterisation w.r.t. the original language semantics.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Completeness and Incompleteness of Synchronous Kleene Algebra
Event: International Conference on Mathematics of Program Construction (MPC 2019)
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33636-3_14
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33636-3_14
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10090952
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