Certification Problem

Input (TPDB TRS_Outermost/Zantema_08/inn_out)

The rewrite relation of the following TRS is considered.

f(g(x)) f(g(g(x))) (1)
g(g(g(x))) a (2)
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(g(x))
f(g(g(x)))
= t1
where t1 = t0σ and σ = {x/g(x)}