Certification Problem

Input (TPDB SRS_Standard/Mixed_SRS/03-oppelt08)

The rewrite relation of the following TRS is considered.

c(c(x1)) b(b(x1)) (1)
a(b(x1)) a(c(b(x1))) (2)
b(a(x1)) b(b(x1)) (3)
b(c(x1)) c(a(a(x1))) (4)

Property / Task

Prove or disprove termination.

Answer / Result

No.

Proof (by AProVE @ termCOMP 2023)

1 Infinite derivation

There is a self-embedding derivation structure which implies nontermination.

a b b (a)n c b+ a b b (a)2n + 4 c b

The derivation can be derived as follows.