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Coinductive big-step semantics for concurrency

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Disputing the popular statements that big-step semantics cannot handle nontermination (they would necessarily “lose” all nonterminating runs) and that concurrency is inherently small-step, I present a big-step semantics for a toy language with shared-variable concurrency that accounts correctly for both terminating and nonterminating runs. This semantics is based on coinductive and mixed inductive-coinductive definitions of resumptions or computation trees (alternatively traces or computation paths), evaluation and termination-sensitive weak bisimilarity. It agrees, constructively, with the intended small-step semantics.

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