A Simplicial Model for : Epistemic Logic with Agents that May Die

É Goubault, J Ledent, S Rajsbaum - arxiv preprint arxiv:2108.10293, 2021 - arxiv.org
The standard semantics of multi-agent epistemic logic S5 is based on Kripke models whose
accessibility relations are reflexive, symmetric and transitive. This one dimensional structure …

Knowledge and simplicial complexes

H Ditmarsch, É Goubault, J Ledent… - Philosophy of Computing …, 2022 - Springer
Simplicial complexes are a versatile and convenient paradigm on which to build all the tools
and techniques of the logic of knowledge, on the assumption that initial epistemic models …

A Distributed Combinatorial Topology Approach to Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

S Rajsbaum, A Raventós-Pujol - … of the 2022 ACM Symposium on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Baryshnikov presented a remarkable algebraic topology proof of Arrow's impossibility
theorem trying to understand the underlying reason behind the numerous proofs of this …

A dynamic epistemic logic analysis of equality negation and other epistemic covering tasks

H van Ditmarsch, É Goubault, M Lazić, J Ledent… - Journal of Logical and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper we study the solvability of the equality negation task in a simple wait-free model
where two processes communicate by reading and writing shared variables or exchanging …

Semi-simplicial set models for distributed knowledge

É Goubault, R Kniazev, J Ledent… - 2023 38th Annual …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, a new class of models for multi-agent epistemic logic has emerged, based
on simplicial complexes. Since then, many variants of these simplicial models have been …

A dynamic epistemic logic analysis of the equality negation task

É Goubault, M Lazić, J Ledent, S Rajsbaum - International Workshop on …, 2019 - Springer
In this paper we study the solvability of the equality negation task in a simple wait-free model
where processes communicate by reading and writing shared variables or exchanging …

Geometric semantics for asynchronous computability

J Ledent - 2019 - theses.hal.science
The field of fault-tolerant protocols studies which concurrent tasks are solvable in various
computational models where processes may crash. To answer these questions, powerful …

Defining logical obstruction with fixpoints in epistemic logic

S Nishimura - Journal of Applied and Computational Topology, 2024 - Springer
The logical method proposed by Goubault, Ledent, and Rajsbaum provides a means of
demonstrating the unsolvability of distributed tasks within the epistemic logic framework. To …

Pseudospheres: combinatorics, topology and distributed systems

L Alberto - Journal of Applied and Computational Topology, 2024 - Springer
Pseudospheres are simplicial complexes defined in the late 1990s to model some aspects
of distributed systems. Since then, combinatorial properties of pseudospheres combined …

Distributed Decision Problems: Concurrent Specifications Beyond Binary Relations (Invited Talk)

S Rajsbaum - 33rd International Conference on Concurrency …, 2022 - drops.dagstuhl.de
Much discussion exists about what is computation, but less about is a computational
problem. Turing's definition of computation was based on computing functions. When we …