Axiomatising weak bisimulation congruences over CCS with left merge and communication merge

Abstract

Classic weak bisimulation-based congruences are not finitely axiomatisable over (the recursion, relabelling, and restriction free fragment of) CCS. Motivated by these negative results, this paper studies the role of auxiliary operators in the finite equational characterisation of CCS parallel composition modulo those congruences. Firstly, we consider CCS with interleaving and left merge. We provide finite equational bases for this language modulo branching, η, delay, and weak bisimulation congruence. In particular, the completeness proofs for η, delay, and weak bisimulation congruence are obtained by reduction to the completeness result for branching bisimulation congruence. Then we extend the language with full merge and communication merge. In this case we provide an equational basis modulo branching bisimulation congruence under the assumption that the set of action names is infinite.