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Weak Monotone Fixed Points for Positive–Negative Guarded Language Systems in a Length-Based Ultrametric Space
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Department of Management, Business and Economics, UBT–Higher Education Institution, 10000 Prishtina, Kosovo
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Department of Software Technology, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Plovdiv Paisii Hilendarski, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Department of Mathematical Analysis, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Plovdiv Paisii Hilendarski, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Axioms 2026, 15(6), 440; https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms15060440 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 8 May 2026
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Revised: 4 June 2026
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Accepted: 11 June 2026
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Published: 13 June 2026
Abstract
We study positive–negative guarded systems of language equations over a fixed finite alphabet. The ambient space is the complete ultrametric space of all formal languages equipped with a length-based distance, where two languages are close whenever they agree on all words up to a sufficiently large length. The systems considered here contain both positive recursive dependencies and negative dependencies expressed through language complements. To handle this mixed structure, we introduce a suitable product order on pairs of languages and prove that the associated system operator has the weak monotone property. We show that the complement is an isometry for the length-based ultrametric and establish a signed wrapping estimate for guarded positive and negative language terms. These estimates lead to an ordered contraction principle for comparable pairs. As a consequence, the canonical lower and upper Picard iterations converge to the same limit, which is the unique fixed pair of the system. We also derive an explicit convergence rate and a finite-depth certification result: after a prescribed number of iterations, the approximants agree with the fixed-point semantics on all words below a given length. Additional symmetry assumptions are shown to force the unique fixed pair to be diagonal, reducing the system to a single language equation. Finally, we discuss an application to trace-based policies for tool-using AI agents. In this interpretation, finite executions of an agent are represented as words over an alphabet of observable tool-events, and the two components of the fixed point provide a stable semantics for policy-defined admissible and risky trace classes. The resulting framework gives a mathematically certified method for finite-depth analysis of recursive trace-based policies based on ultrametric fixed-point techniques.
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Ajeti, L.; Hristov, H.; Ilchev, A.; Zlatanov, B.
Weak Monotone Fixed Points for Positive–Negative Guarded Language Systems in a Length-Based Ultrametric Space. Axioms 2026, 15, 440.
https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms15060440
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Ajeti L, Hristov H, Ilchev A, Zlatanov B.
Weak Monotone Fixed Points for Positive–Negative Guarded Language Systems in a Length-Based Ultrametric Space. Axioms. 2026; 15(6):440.
https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms15060440
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Ajeti, Laura, Hristo Hristov, Atanas Ilchev, and Boyan Zlatanov.
2026. "Weak Monotone Fixed Points for Positive–Negative Guarded Language Systems in a Length-Based Ultrametric Space" Axioms 15, no. 6: 440.
https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms15060440
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Ajeti, L., Hristov, H., Ilchev, A., & Zlatanov, B.
(2026). Weak Monotone Fixed Points for Positive–Negative Guarded Language Systems in a Length-Based Ultrametric Space. Axioms, 15(6), 440.
https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms15060440
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