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 ttt2 @ termCOMP 2023)

1 Loop

The following loop proves nontermination.

t0 = a(b(b(x8)))
b(b(a(a(b(x8)))))
b(b(a(b(b(a(a(x8)))))))
= t2
where t2 = C[t0σ] and σ = {x8/a(a(x8))} and C = b(b())