Certification Problem

Input (TPDB TRS_Outermost/Strategy_outermost_added_08/4.34)

The rewrite relation of the following TRS is considered.

a(b(x)) b(b(a(a(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 = a(a(b(x')))
a(b(b(a(a(x')))))
b(b(a(a(b(a(a(x')))))))
= t2
where t2 = C[t0σ] and σ = {x'/a(a(x'))} and C = b(b())