Terminal Sequence Induction via Games

  • Authors:
  • Clemens Kupke

  • Affiliations:
  • Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ

  • Venue:
  • Logic, Language, and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we provide an alternative proof of a fundamental theorem by Worrell stating that the (possibly infinite) behaviour of an F -coalgebra state can be faithfully approximated by the collection of its finite, n -step behaviours, provided that F :Set***Set is a finitary set functor. The novelty of our work lies in our proof technique: our proof uses a certain graph game that generalizes Baltag's F -bisimilarity game. Phrased in terms of games, our main technical result is that behavioural equivalence on F -coalgebras for a finitary set functor F can be captured by a two-player graph game in which at every position a player has only finitely many moves.