Ergodic properties of concurrent systems
Abstract
A concurrent system is defined as a monoid action of a trace monoid on a finite set of states. Concurrent systems represent state models where the state is distributed and where state changes are local. Starting from a spectral property on the combinatorics of concurrent systems, we prove the existence and uniqueness of a Markov measure on the space of infinite trajectories relatively to any weight distributions. In turn, we obtain a combinatorial result by proving that the kernel of the associated M\"obius matrix has dimension 1; the M\"obius matrix extends in this context the M\"obius polynomial of a trace monoid. We study ergodic properties of irreducible concurrent systems and we prove a Strong law of large numbers. It allows us to introduce the speedup as a measurement of the average amount of concurrency within infinite trajectories. Examples are studied.
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@article{arxiv.2505.12810,
title = {Ergodic properties of concurrent systems},
author = {Samy Abbes and Vincent Jugé},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.12810},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
36 pages, 7 figures. Published online in Discrete Event Dynamic Systems in May 2025