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> Conclusion ... monotonicity serves as the foundation of deterministic parallelism

That's what the recent CALM Theorem [1] paper uses as the first theorem:

> Monotonicity is the key property underlying the need for coordination to establish consistency, as captured in the CALM Theorem:

> THEOREM 1. Consistency As Logical Monotonicity (CALM). A problem has a consistent, coordination-free distributed implementation if and only if it is monotonic.

Unsurprisingly, this paper is reference 32 in CALM. Maybe I should check out some other papers referenced here... Thanks for the recommendation!

[1]: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/9/246941-keeping-calm/fu...