Certification Problem

Input (COPS 344)

The rewrite relation of the following conditional TRS is considered.

sub(z,0) z
sub(s(z),s(y)) x | sub(z,y) ≈ x

Property / Task

Prove or disprove confluence.

Answer / Result

Yes.

Proof (by ConCon @ CoCo 2020)

1 Inlining of Conditions

Inlining of conditions results in the following transformed CTRS having the same multistep rewrite relation.
sub(z,0) z
sub(s(z),s(y)) sub(z,y)

1.1 Almost-orthogonal

The given (extended) properly oriented, right-stable, oriented 3-CTRS is almost-orthogonal, since there are no conditional critical pairs.