feat(FLP): define pseudo-consensus and prove that it is implied by consensus - #718
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I've just found a typo, rest looks good and can be queued once fixed.
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This PR defines the notion of a fault-tolerant "pseudo-consensus" algorithm, which is central to Völzer's proof, and proves that every f-tolerant consensus algorithm is also a f-tolerant pseudo-consensus algorithm. This resilt is intuitively obvious and is stated without proof in Völzer's paper, but it turns out to require quite a bit of formal machinery (given in
FairSchedular.ean) to prove.Zulip discussion: #CSLib > Impossibility of distributed consensus