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This paper shows that weak bisimulation congruence can be characterised as rooted weak bisimulation equivalence, even without making assumptions on the cardinality of the sets of states or actions of the processes under consideration.
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van Glabbeek, R.J. (2005). A Characterisation of Weak Bisimulation Congruence. In: Middeldorp, A., van Oostrom, V., van Raamsdonk, F., de Vrijer, R. (eds) Processes, Terms and Cycles: Steps on the Road to Infinity. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3838. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11601548_4
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