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Bisimilarity of open terms. (English) Zbl 1046.68626
Summary: Traditionally, in process calculi, relations over open terms, i.e., terms with free process variables, are defined as extensions of closed-term relations: two open terms are related if and only if all their closed instantiations are related. Working in the context of bisimulation, in this paper we study a different approach: we define semantic models for open terms, so-called conditional transition systems, and define bisimulation directly on those models. It turns out that this can be done in at least two different ways, one giving rise to De Simone’s formal hypothesis and the other to a variation which we call hypothesis-preserving bisimilarity. For open terms, we have (strict) inclusions between the relations; for closed terms, the three coincide. Each of these relations is a congruence in the usual sense. We also give an alternative characterisation of history-preserving bisimilarity in terms of non-conditional transitions, as substitution-closed bisimilarity. Finally, we study the issue of recursion congruence: we prove that each of the above relations is a congruence with respect to the recursion operator; however, for closed-instance bisimilarity this result holds under more restrictive conditions than for the hypothesis-based variants.

##### MSC:
 68Q85 Models and methods for concurrent and distributed computing (process algebras, bisimulation, transition nets, etc.) 68Q10 Modes of computation (nondeterministic, parallel, interactive, probabilistic, etc.) 68Q60 Specification and verification (program logics, model checking, etc.)
##### Keywords:
bisimulation; recursion congruence
LOTOS
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