diff --git a/specs/core/0_fork-choice.md b/specs/core/0_fork-choice.md index 6fdb97067..ac2e5797d 100644 --- a/specs/core/0_fork-choice.md +++ b/specs/core/0_fork-choice.md @@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ Note: Nodes needs to have a clock that is roughly (i.e. within `SECONDS_PER_SLOT ### Beacon chain fork choice rule -The beacon chain fork choice rule is a hybrid that combines justification and finality with Latest Message Driven (LMD) Greediest Heaviest Observed SubTree (GHOST). At any point in time a [validator](#dfn-validator) `v` subjectively calculates the beacon chain head as follows. +The beacon chain fork choice rule is a hybrid that combines justification and finality with Latest Message Driven (LMD) Greediest Heaviest Observed SubTree (GHOST). At any point in time a [validator](0_beacon-chain.md#dfn-validator) `v` subjectively calculates the beacon chain head as follows. -* Abstractly define `Store` as the type of storage object for the chain data and `store` be the set of attestations and blocks that the [validator](#dfn-validator) `v` has observed and verified (in particular, block ancestors must be recursively verified). Attestations not yet included in any chain are still included in `store`. +* Abstractly define `Store` as the type of storage object for the chain data and `store` be the set of attestations and blocks that the [validator](0_beacon-chain.md#dfn-validator) `v` has observed and verified (in particular, block ancestors must be recursively verified). Attestations not yet included in any chain are still included in `store`. * Let `finalized_head` be the finalized block with the highest epoch. (A block `B` is finalized if there is a descendant of `B` in `store` the processing of which sets `B` as finalized.) * Let `justified_head` be the descendant of `finalized_head` with the highest epoch that has been justified for at least 1 epoch. (A block `B` is justified if there is a descendant of `B` in `store` the processing of which sets `B` as justified.) If no such descendant exists set `justified_head` to `finalized_head`. * Let `get_ancestor(store: Store, block: BeaconBlock, slot: Slot) -> BeaconBlock` be the ancestor of `block` with slot number `slot`. The `get_ancestor` function can be defined recursively as: