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This work considers concurrent programs formed of processes connected by an underlying network. The symmetries of the network may be used to reduce the state space of the program, by grouping together similar global states. This can result in an exponential reduction for highly symmetric networks, but it is much less effective for many networks, such as rings, which have limited global symmetry. We focus instead on the local symmetries in a network and show that they can be used to significantly reduce the complexity of compositional reasoning. Local symmetries are represented by a symmetry groupoid, a generalization of a symmetry group. Certain sub-groupoids induce quotient networks which are equivalent to the original for the purposes of compositional reasoning. We formulate a compositional reasoning principle for safety properties of process networks and define symmetry groupoids and the quotient construction. Moreover, we show how symmetry and local reasoning can be expoited to provide parameterized proofs of correctness.
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Namjoshi, K.S., Trefler, R.J. (2012). Local Symmetry and Compositional Verification. In: Kuncak, V., Rybalchenko, A. (eds) Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation. VMCAI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7148. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27940-9_23
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