Certification Problem

Input (TPDB TRS_Equational/Mixed_AC_and_C/AC29)

The rewrite relation of the following equational TRS is considered.

1 s(0) (1)
2 s(1) (2)
3 s(2) (3)
4 s(3) (4)
5 s(4) (5)
6 s(5) (6)
7 s(6) (7)
8 s(7) (8)
9 s(8) (9)
max'(0,x) x (10)
max'(s(x),s(y)) s(max'(x,y)) (11)
app(empty,X) X (12)
max(singl(x)) x (13)
max(app(singl(x),Y)) max2(x,Y) (14)
max2(x,empty) x (15)
max2(x,singl(y)) max'(x,y) (16)
max2(x,app(singl(y),Z)) max2(max'(x,y),Z) (17)

Associative symbols: app

Commutative symbols: max', app

Property / Task

Prove or disprove termination.

Answer / Result

Yes.

Proof (by NaTT @ termCOMP 2023)

1 AC Dependency Pair Transformation