Title
Languages of higher-dimensional automata.
Abstract
We introduce languages of higher-dimensional automata (HDAs) and develop some of their properties. To this end, we define a new category of precubical sets, uniquely naturally isomorphic to the standard one, and introduce a notion of event consistency. HDAs are then finite, labeled, event-consistent precubical sets with distinguished subsets of initial and accepting cells. Their languages are sets of interval orders closed under subsumption; as a major technical step we expose a bijection between interval orders and a subclass of HDAs. We show that any finite subsumption-closed set of interval orders is the language of an HDA, that languages of HDAs are closed under binary unions and parallel composition, and that bisimilarity implies language equivalence.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1017/S0960129521000293
Math. Struct. Comput. Sci.
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
31
5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Uli Fahrenberg101.35
Christian Johansen213.40
Georg Struth364153.76
Krzysztof Ziemiański401.35