Technical Reports

The report FIMU-RS-2005-06

Refining the Undecidability Border of Weak Bisimilarity

by Mojmír Køetínský, Vojtìch Øehák, Jan Strejèek, A full version of the paper presented at INFINITY 2005. August 2005, 20 pages.

FIMU-RS-2005-06. Available as Postscript, PDF.

Abstract:

Weak bisimilarity is one of the most studied behavioural equivalences. This equivalence is undecidable for pushdown processes (PDA), process algebras (PA), and multiset automata (MSA, also known as parallel pushdown processes, PPDA). Its decidability is an open question for basic process algebras (BPA) and basic parallel processes (BPP). We move the undecidability border towards these classes by showing that the equivalence remains undecidable for weakly extended versions of BPA and BPP. Further, we show the results hold for even more restricted classes of normed BPA with finite constraint system and normed BPP with finite constraint system.