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Weak bisimulations for the Giry monad

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2010

ERNST-ERICH DOBERKAT*
Affiliation:
Chair for Software Technology, Technische Universität Dortmund Email: ernst-erich.doberkat@udo.edu

Abstract

We study the existence of bisimulations for Kleisli morphisms associated with the Giry monad of subprobabilities over Polish spaces. We first investigate these morphisms and show that the problem can be reduced to the existence of bisimulations for objects in the base category of stochastic relations using simulation equivalent congruences. This leads us to a criterion for two objects to be bisimilar.

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