Certification Problem

Input (TPDB TRS_Standard/SK90/4.34)

The rewrite relation of the following TRS is considered.

a(b(x)) b(b(a(a(x)))) (1)

Property / Task

Prove or disprove termination.

Answer / Result

No.

Proof (by AProVE @ termCOMP 2023)

1 Looping derivation

There is a looping derivation.

a b b+ b b a b b a a

The derivation can be derived as follows.