A Basic Parallel Process as a Parallel Pushdown Automaton

We investigate the set of basic parallel processes, recursively defined by action prefix, interleaving, 0 and 1. Different from literature, we use the constants 0 and 1 standing for unsuccessful and successful termination in order to stay closer to the analogies in automata theory. We prove that any basic parallel process is rooted branching bisimulation equivalent to a regular process communicating with a bag (also called a parallel pushdown automaton) and therefore we can regard the bag as the prototypical basic parallel process. This result is closely related to the fact that any context-free process is either rooted branching bisimulation equivalent or contrasimulation equivalent to a regular process communicating with a stack, a result that is the analogy in process theory of the language theory result that any context-free language is the language of a pushdown automaton