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Use the two incoming initial arrows in the source figure: $I=\{s_0,s_3\}$. An atomic proposition is true precisely at the states whose displayed labels contain it. In particular, $c$ is false at every state. Hence $GF\neg c$ is true on every infinite path in a transition system, and the first implication in the fairness assumption imposes no restriction.

Write $p=a\wedge b$. The remaining implication is $FGp\to GF\neg b$. By the linear temporal logic duality $\neg FGp=GF\neg p$, it is equivalent tosince $\neg b$ implies $\neg p$. Thus a path is fair exactly when it visits states not labelled with both $a$ and $b$ infinitely often. This condition also follows directly: if $p$ eventually holds forever, then $b$ eventually holds forever and the required $GF\neg b$ is impossible; if $p$ does not eventually hold forever, the implication has a false antecedent.

Every initial path in a transition system in the upper component either alternates forever between $s_0$ and $s_1$, or makes finitely many alternations and then stays at $s_2$. These are all fair: the first visits $s_1$ infinitely often, and the second visits $s_2$ infinitely often; neither state satisfies $a\wedge b$.

In the lower component, a path in a transition system can stay at $s_3$ forever, or leave it after finitely many visits and pass through $s_4$ to $s_5$. The constant path in a transition system $s_3^{\omega }$ is unfair because $a\wedge b$ holds forever while $\neg b$ never holds. Every departing path in a transition system is fair because $s_5$ satisfies neither $a$ nor $b$. Here $v^{\omega }$ means infinite repetition of the finite word $v$. ThereforeThis notation lists initial paths in a transition system. If one instead allows arbitrary starting states, their suffixes starting at $s_1,s_2,s_4,s_5$ are fair as well; the fair paths in a transition system from each initial state, and hence all verdicts below, are unchanged.

To apply bounded model checking, seek an initial path in a transition system satisfyingA satisfying assignment for its bounded encoding is enough to disprove the specification. Use a lasso path: positions $q_0,\dots ,q_k$ follow the transition relation, and a final arrow returns from $q_k$ to some $q_{\ell }$, $0\le \ell \le k$. The repeated part is $q_{\ell }\cdots q_k$. On such a lasso path, $GFr$ is equivalent to having $r$ true at some position of the repeated part.

For this example an explicit Boolean formula for the bounded search isHere $I(q)$ means $q\in \{s_0,s_3\}$ and $T(q,r)$ means that the source diagram has the arrow $q\to r$; each can be encoded by finite Boolean variables for the states. The loop requirements are the fairness assumption and the negated specification respectively. Unrolling the transition relation and adding a loop closure is the usual bounded model checking construction.^[ref]

At bound $k=0$, an initial self-loop would be needed. The only such choice is $q_0=s_3$, whose repeated label satisfies $a\wedge b$ and $a$. It violates both loop requirements. The other initial state, $s_0$, has no self-loop. Thus $E_0$ has no satisfying assignment.

At bound $k=1$, chooseBoth required arrows $s_0\to s_1$ and $s_1\to s_0$ exist. At $q_1$, $a$ is false and hence $a\wedge b$ is false, so both repeated-part requirements are true. Equivalently, the label values are $a(q_0)=b(q_0)=b(q_1)=1$ and $a(q_1)=c(q_0)=c(q_1)=0$. These values give a satisfying assignment of $E_1$, representing the fair counterexample $(s_0{s}_1{)}^{\omega }$. ConsequentlyHere the bound counts forward arrows before the returning arrow, so $k=1$ stores two positions and describes a two-state repeated part. There is no need for a completeness bound: the exhibited fair counterexample settles the negative answer. These satisfying assignments are checked directly; no claim of executing an external SAT solver is needed.