Abstract
Two notions of nontermination are studied and compared in the setting of idempotent semirings: Cohen’s omega operator and a divergence operator. They are determined for various computational models, and conditions for their existence and their coincidence are given. It turns out that divergence yields a simple and natural way of modelling infinite behaviours of programs and discrete systems, whereas the omega operator shows some anomalies.
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