Certification Problem

Input (TPDB TRS_Outermost/Strategy_outermost_added_08/001)

The rewrite relation of the following TRS is considered.

app(app(iterate,f),x) app(app(cons,x),app(app(iterate,f),app(f,x))) (1)
The evaluation strategy is outermost

Property / Task

Prove or disprove termination.

Answer / Result

No.

Proof (by AProVE @ termCOMP 2023)

1 Loop

The following loop proves nontermination.

t0 = app(app(iterate,f),x)
app(app(cons,x),app(app(iterate,f),app(f,x)))
= t1
where t1 = C[t0σ] and σ = {f/f, x/app(f,x)} and C = app(app(cons,x),)