Certification Problem

Input (TPDB TRS_Outermost/Strategy_outermost_added_08/Ex9_Luc06_Z)

The rewrite relation of the following TRS is considered.

f(n__a,X,X) f(activate(X),b,n__b) (1)
b a (2)
a n__a (3)
b n__b (4)
activate(n__a) a (5)
activate(n__b) b (6)
activate(X) X (7)
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 = f(n__a,n__b,n__b)
f(activate(n__b),b,n__b)
f(b,b,n__b)
f(a,b,n__b)
f(n__a,b,n__b)
f(n__a,n__b,n__b)
= t5
where t5 = t0