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Directed homology theories for geometric models of true concurrency

Jérémy Dubut, LSV (ENS Cachan)

Salle B107, bâtiment B, Université de Villetaneuse

19/05/2017 11:00 - 12:30

Résumé :

Studying a system through its geometry is the main purpose of directed algebraic topology. This topic emerged in computer science, more particularly in true concurrency, where Pratt introduced his higher dimensional automata (HDA) in 1991 (actually, the idea of geometry of concurrency can be tracked down Dijkstra in 1965). Those automata are geometric by nature: every set of n processes executing independent actions can be modeled by a n-cube, and such an automata then gives rise to a topological space, obtained by glueing such cubes together, with a specific direction of time coming from the execution flow. It then seems natural to use tools from algebraic topology to study those spaces: paths model executions, homotopies of paths, that is continuous deformations of paths, model equivalence of executions modulo scheduling of independent actions, and so on, but all those notions must preserve the direction somehow. This brings many complications and the theory must be done again, essentially from scratch.

In this talk, after developing this idea of geometry of true concurrency, I will focus on homology. Homology is a nice computable tool from algebraic topology and it is a challenge in directed algebraic topology to find a satisfactory analogue that behaves well with direction. I will present our candidate of `directed homology’, called natural (or bimodule) homology. This object consists in a functor with values in modules, which looks at the classical homology of trace spaces (a nice abstraction of what we may call `space of executions’) and how those homologies evolve with time. This evolution can be studied through an abstract notion of bisimulation of functors with values in modules, that has many equivalent characterizations (using relations, using lifting properties, using Grothendieck construction, …) and whose existence is decidable in simple cases. Finally, among nice properties of our directed homology, I will show you that it is computable on simple spaces, which are already enough to model simple truly concurrent systems.

Joint work with Eric Goubault and Jean Goubault-Larrecq.