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 ttt2 @ termCOMP 2023)

1 Loop

The following loop proves nontermination.

t0 = a(b(a(b(a(b(x10))))))
b(a(b(a(a(b(a(b(x10))))))))
b(a(b(a(b(a(b(a(a(b(x10))))))))))
= t2
where t2 = C[t0σ] and σ = {x10/a(a(b(x10)))} and C = b()