A star semiring is a Semiring ( A , 0 , + , 1 , ⋅ ) 𝐴 0 1 ⋅ (A,0,+,1,\cdot) equipped with a unary operation ( − ) ∗ : A → A : superscript → 𝐴 𝐴 (-)^{*}:A\to A that statisfies the following two axioms: