2023/11/17 by Péter Bereczky, Bereczky, Péter, Dániel Horpácsi +3
Computer Science · #Logic, programming, and type systems #Formal Methods in Verification #Software Engineering Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2311.10482
In order to reason about the behaviour of programs described in a programming language, a mathematically rigorous definition of that language is needed. In this paper, we present a machine-checked formalisation of concurrent Core Erlang (a subset of Erlang) based on our previous formalisations of its sequential sublanguage. We define a modular, frame stack semantics, show how program evaluation is carried out with it, and prove a number of properties (e.g. determinism, confluence). Finally, we define program equivalence based on bisimulations and prove that side-effect-free evaluation is a bisimulation. This research is part of a wider project that aims to verify refactorings to prove that particular program code transformations preserve program behaviour.