Certification Problem

Input (COPS 382)

The rewrite relation of the following conditional TRS is considered.

s(a) c
s(b) c
c t(k)
c t(l)
f(x) z | s(x) ≈ z
g(x,x) h(x,x)

Property / Task

Prove or disprove confluence.

Answer / Result

No.

Proof (by ConCon @ CoCo 2020)

1 Inlining of Conditions

Inlining of conditions results in the following transformed CTRS having the same multistep rewrite relation.
s(a) c
s(b) c
c t(k)
c t(l)
f(x) s(x)
g(x,x) h(x,x)

1.1 Non-Joinable Fork

The system is not confluent due to the following forking derivations.
c * t(k)
c * t(l)
The two resulting terms cannot be joined for the following reason: