Certification Problem

Input (TPDB TRS_Standard/SK90/4.37)

The rewrite relation of the following TRS is considered.

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

Property / Task

Prove or disprove termination.

Answer / Result

Yes.

Proof (by AProVE @ termCOMP 2023)

1 String Reversal

Since only unary symbols occur, one can reverse all terms and obtains the TRS
a(b(a(x))) a(b(x)) (2)

1.1 Bounds

The given TRS is match-(raise)-bounded by 2. This is shown by the following automaton.