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Main Authors: Colcombet, Thomas, Doumane, Amina, Kuperberg, Denis
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12677
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author Colcombet, Thomas
Doumane, Amina
Kuperberg, Denis
author_facet Colcombet, Thomas
Doumane, Amina
Kuperberg, Denis
contents We establish that the bisimulation invariant fragment of MSO over finite transition systems is expressively equivalent over finite transition systems to modal mu-calculus, a question that had remained open for several decades. The proof goes by translating the question to an algebraic framework, and showing that the languages of regular trees that are recognized by finitary tree algebras whose sorts zero and one are finite are the regular ones, ie. the ones expressible in mu-calculus. This corresponds for trees to a weak form of the key translation of Wilke algebras to omega-semigroup over infinite words, and was also a missing piece in the algebraic theory of regular languages of infinite trees for twenty years.
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spellingShingle Tree algebras and bisimulation-invariant MSO on finite graphs
Colcombet, Thomas
Doumane, Amina
Kuperberg, Denis
Logic in Computer Science
We establish that the bisimulation invariant fragment of MSO over finite transition systems is expressively equivalent over finite transition systems to modal mu-calculus, a question that had remained open for several decades. The proof goes by translating the question to an algebraic framework, and showing that the languages of regular trees that are recognized by finitary tree algebras whose sorts zero and one are finite are the regular ones, ie. the ones expressible in mu-calculus. This corresponds for trees to a weak form of the key translation of Wilke algebras to omega-semigroup over infinite words, and was also a missing piece in the algebraic theory of regular languages of infinite trees for twenty years.
title Tree algebras and bisimulation-invariant MSO on finite graphs
topic Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12677