A non-topological proof for the impossibility of k-set agreement

  • Authors:
  • Hagit Attiya;Armando Castañeda

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel;IRISA-INRIA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In the k-set agreement task, each process proposes a value and each correct process has to decide a value which was proposed, so that at most k distinct values are decided. Using topological arguments it has been proved that k-set agreement is unsolvable in the asynchronous wait-free read/write shared memory model, when k