Matching in the Pi-Calculus

We study whether, in the pi-calculus, the match prefix—a conditional operator testing two names for (syntactic) equality—is expressible via the other operators. Previously, Carbone and Maffeis proved that matching is not expressible this way under rather strong requirements (preservation and reflect...

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Main Authors: Kirstin Peters, Tsvetelina Yonova-Karbe, Uwe Nestmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2014-08-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.1454v1