Fractals from Regular Behaviours

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Autores principales: Schmid, Todd, Noquez, Victoria, Moss, Lawrence S.
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author Schmid, Todd
Noquez, Victoria
Moss, Lawrence S.
author_facet Schmid, Todd
Noquez, Victoria
Moss, Lawrence S.
contents We forge connections between the theory of fractal sets obtained as attractors of iterated function systems and process calculi. To this end, we reinterpret Milner's expressions for processes as contraction operators on a complete metric space. When the space is, for example, the plane, the denotations of fixed point terms correspond to familiar fractal sets. We give a sound and complete axiomatization of fractal equivalence, the congruence on terms consisting of pairs that construct identical self-similar sets in all interpretations. We further make connections to labelled Markov chains and to invariant measures. In all of this work, we use important results from process calculi. For example, we use Rabinovich's completeness theorem for trace equivalence in our own completeness theorem. In addition to our results, we also raise many questions related to both fractals and process calculi.
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spellingShingle Fractals from Regular Behaviours
Schmid, Todd
Noquez, Victoria
Moss, Lawrence S.
Logic in Computer Science
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
We forge connections between the theory of fractal sets obtained as attractors of iterated function systems and process calculi. To this end, we reinterpret Milner's expressions for processes as contraction operators on a complete metric space. When the space is, for example, the plane, the denotations of fixed point terms correspond to familiar fractal sets. We give a sound and complete axiomatization of fractal equivalence, the congruence on terms consisting of pairs that construct identical self-similar sets in all interpretations. We further make connections to labelled Markov chains and to invariant measures. In all of this work, we use important results from process calculi. For example, we use Rabinovich's completeness theorem for trace equivalence in our own completeness theorem. In addition to our results, we also raise many questions related to both fractals and process calculi.
title Fractals from Regular Behaviours
topic Logic in Computer Science
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03894