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Fairness is defined for an abstract class of formal systems that represent models for true concurrency. It is shown that generally fairness coincides with limits of convergent sequences in some ultra metric spaces and with П 03 -sets of recursion theory.
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Nolte, D., Priese, L. (1991). Fairness in models with true concurrency. In: Baeten, J.C.M., Groote, J.F. (eds) CONCUR '91. CONCUR 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 527. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54430-5_106
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