# lpssumelm¶

Remove superfluous summations from a linear process specification (LPS).

The simplest case this tool handles is that, whenever a summation variable does not occur in the other terms of the summand, this summation variable is plainly removed. There is however also a more complex situation where the summation variable occurs in an equality within the condition. There is an axiom that says that we may then substitute the other term of the equality for the summation variable. We can then remove both the summation variable and the condition in which it occurred.

## Known issues¶

The tool is not applicable if types in an equality in a condition do not match directly, i.e. an implicit type cast is used in order to match the types. An example of this is the following process:

proc P(i : Int) = sum n : Nat . (n == i) -> tau . P(i);

init P(5);


In this example an implicit cast Nat2Int (i.e. Nat2Int(n) == i) is used in order to have compatible types. Because of this, the tool is unable to remove the summation over n.

## Manual page for lpssumelm¶

### Usage¶

lpssumelm   [OPTION]... [INFILE [OUTFILE]]


### Description¶

Remove superfluous summations from the linear process specification (LPS) in INFILE and write the result to OUTFILE. If INFILE is not present, stdin is used. If OUTFILE is not present, stdout is used.

### Command line options¶

-c , --decluster

first decluster disjunctive conditions

--timings[FILE]

append timing measurements to FILE. Measurements are written to standard error if no FILE is provided

#### Standard options¶

-q , --quiet

do not display warning messages

-v , --verbose

display short intermediate messages

-d , --debug

display detailed intermediate messages

--log-levelLEVEL

display intermediate messages up to and including level

-h , --help

display help information

--version

display version information

Jeroen Keiren