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We examine the problem whether a given weakly extended process rewrite system (wPRS) contains a reachable state satisfying a given formula of Hennessy–Milner logic. We show that this problem is decidable. As a corollary we observe that the problem of strong bisimilarity between wPRS and finite-state systems is decidable. Decidability of the same problem for wPRS subclasses, namely PAN and PRS, has been formulated as an open question, see e.g. [Srb02]. We also strengthen some related undecidability results on some PRS subclasses.
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Křetínský, M., Řehák, V., Strejček, J. (2005). Reachability of Hennessy-Milner Properties for Weakly Extended PRS. In: Sarukkai, S., Sen, S. (eds) FSTTCS 2005: Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. FSTTCS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3821. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11590156_17
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