Certification Problem

Input (TPDB TRS_Standard/Strategy_removed_AG01/#4.18)

The rewrite relation of the following TRS is considered.

a(b(a(b(x)))) b(a(b(a(a(b(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 a b a b+ b a b a b a b a a b

The derivation can be derived as follows.