Asynchronous Distributed Automata: A Characterization of the Modal Mu-Fragment.
2016
We establish the equivalence between a class of asynchronous distributed automata and a small fragment of least fixpoint logic, when restricted to finite directed graphs. More specifically, the logic we consider is (a variant of) the fragment of the modal $\mu$-calculus that allows least fixpoints but forbids greatest fixpoints. The corresponding automaton model uses a network of identical finite-state machines that communicate in an asynchronous manner and whose state diagram must be acyclic except for self-loops. Exploiting the connection with logic, we also prove that the expressive power of those machines is independent of whether or not messages can be lost.
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