Certification Problem

Input (TPDB SRS_Standard/Waldmann_06_SRS/uni-4)

The rewrite relation of the following TRS is considered.

a(a(a(a(x1)))) b(a(a(a(x1)))) (1)
b(b(x1)) a(a(b(x1))) (2)

Property / Task

Prove or disprove termination.

Answer / Result

No.

Proof (by AProVE @ termCOMP 2023)

1 Looping derivation

There is a looping derivation.

b b b b b+ ε b b b b b a a a b

The derivation can be derived as follows.