# Communication Pattern Logic: Epistemic and Topological Views

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00823 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.00823/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 2 Jul 2022.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Simplicial Models for the Epistemic Logic of Faulty Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.01351/) (2023)
- [Permissible Knowledge Pooling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.03418/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We propose communication pattern logic. A communication pattern describes how processes or agents inform each other, independently of the information content. The full-information protocol in distributed computing is the special case wherein all agents inform each other. We study this protocol in distributed computing models where communication might fail: an agent is certain about the messages it receives, but it may be uncertain about the messages other agents have received. In a dynamic epistemic logic with distributed knowledge and with modalities for communication patterns, the latter are interpreted by updating Kripke models. We propose an axiomatization of communication pattern logic, and we show that collective bisimilarity (comparing models on their distributed knowledge) is preserved when updating models with communication patterns. We can also interpret communication patterns by updating simplicial complexes, a well-known topological framework for distributed computing. We show that the different semantics correspond, and propose collective bisimulation between simplicial complexes.