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After CSP trace $s$, the CSP process can reach a CSP stable state offering no event in the refusal set $X$. Refusal is existential over reachable stable alternatives.^[ref]

The obstruction is that the property is about where a transition originates, whereas the three standard CSP semantic models identify processes that can disagree about this fact. Take fresh $h\ne a$ and compareIn $G$, the only $a$ transition leaves a CSP stable state, so the property holds. Initially $B$ has both an $a$ transition to $\mathrm{STOP}$ and a CSP internal action to $a\to \mathrm{STOP}$. Its initial state is therefore not a CSP stable state, and its direct $a$ transition violates the property.

Nevertheless both have exactly the CSP traces $⟨⟩$ and $⟨a⟩$. Initially their possible stable observations offer exactly $a$, so their initial CSP stable failures are precisely $(⟨⟩,X)$ with $a\notin X$. After $a$, both can refuse every CSP event. Neither has a CSP divergence: the hidden $h$ can occur at most once. ThereforeNo CSP refinement test in one of these models can separate semantically equal operands. This also rules out placing the operand in a fixed context of ordinary CSP operators before the test, since those operators respect the model's equality. A model recording more about the interleaving of stability and acceptance, or an additional operator that explicitly observes stability, would be needed.

For a finite CSP trace $s$, let $L(s)$ be its sequence of values on $left$ and $O(s)$ its sequence of values on $right$, with channel names removed. Restrict the external alphabet to these two channels. The behavioural CSP trace specification for an unbounded FIFO buffer iswhere $⪯$ means prefix of a list, not merely subsequence. Outputs must therefore occur in input order, cannot duplicate or invent values, and cannot precede their inputs. Applying the condition to every CSP trace also checks every execution prefix.

For a legal $s$, write $L(s)=O(s)⌢q(s)$, so $q(s)$ is the pending FIFO queue content. Define the events that must remain available byIn addition to the CSP trace condition, require the behavioural CSP stable failure conditionThus an unbounded FIFO buffer cannot stably refuse any new input, and a nonempty FIFO buffer cannot stably refuse its oldest pending output. An empty FIFO buffer can refuse every output. Readiness of an input and readiness of an output are required together; the environment may choose either. These conditions do not require an output while the environment refuses to accept it. In a CSP failures-divergences model specification, also exclude CSP divergence; the stable-readiness condition alone does not rule out an implementation that loops internally forever without reaching a CSP stable state.

Use fresh event tags to tell apart an action by $P$ and an interrupting action by $Q$. Put $B=\Sigma \setminus A$ and introduce a disjoint copy $B^{\prime }=\{a^{\prime }:a\in B\}$. Let $f$ fix $A$ and map each $a\in B$ to $a^{\prime }$, and put $S=A\cup B^{\prime }$. Define a process that always accepts an event from $S$ byand an ordinary CSP interrupt handler byFinally let $g$ fix every original event and send $a^{\prime }$ back to $a$. A simulation containing no occurrence of the new operator isHere $△$ is the ordinary CSP interrupt, and the CSP event renaming $g$ is applied after the CSP parallel composition. It is non-injective, so part (c) explains why moving it inside would be unsafe.

Before the interrupt, $P$'s events in $A$ synchronize with $f(Q)$ on the same events. Its events outside $A$ are unprimed and do not synchronize with $f(Q)$. Meanwhile $Q$'s events outside $A$ are primed; they synchronize with $I$ and thereby interrupt and discard $P$. After the first such event, the left operand is $\mathrm{RUN}(S)$, so it imposes no further restriction on $f(Q)$; final CSP event renaming then yields exactly the remaining behaviour of $Q$.

For a formal strong bisimulation, relate a pre-interrupt state $J_A(P_0,Q_0)$ toand an already-interrupted state $Q_0$ toThe three visible cases match the rules in part (d), including both transitions when both operands offer the same event outside $A$. A CSP internal action of $Q_0$ never activates $I$, while a CSP internal action of $P_0$ remains possible exactly until the interrupt. The controller adds no CSP internal actions. Thus transitions match in both directions and related derivatives remain related.

Consequently this simulation is stronger than merely CSP trace equivalent:It preserves CSP stable states, their enabled-event sets and their CSP stable failures, and matches every possible infinite run of CSP internal actions. In particular, it introduces neither a premature commitment nor a new CSP divergence. A different simulation that guesses an interrupt with a hidden handshake would need a separate refusal analysis; the visible tagging construction above needs no hidden handshake.