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Re: Checking implementation



Hi.

The only way you can currently check it in TLC is with a refinement mapping (from M2 to M1) that you have to write yourself. In your case it seems simple enough as M2's state contains M1's, so it's a trivial matter (just Spec => M1!Spec [1]). In other cases, adding auxiliary variables is necessary, and may make this harder.

The theoretical issue is that the problem of checking temporal existential quantification is co-NP-hard in the number of states. I once started to think of an algorithm that may be able to do it in linear time for some/many practical instances but put it aside for now.

Ron

[1]: In general for existential quantification, A ⇒ B ⊦ A ⇒ ∃x. B