Probabilistic Kleene Algebra with Angelic Nondeterminism
Shawn Ong, Stephanie Ma, Dexter Kozen
2025Year
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Abstract
We introduce a version of probabilistic Kleene algebra with angelic nondeterminism and a corresponding class of automata. Our approach implements semantics via distributions over multisets in order to overcome theoretical barriers arising from the lack of a distributive law between the powerset and Giry monads. We produce a full Kleene theorem and a coalgebraic theory, as well as both operational and denotational semantics and equational reasoning principles.
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