Certification Problem

Input (TPDB TRS_Standard/Transformed_CSR_04/Ex9_Luc04_L)

The rewrite relation of the following TRS is considered.

f(a,X) f(X,X) (1)
c a (2)
c b (3)

Property / Task

Prove or disprove termination.

Answer / Result

No.

Proof (by AProVE @ termCOMP 2023)

1 Uncurrying

We uncurry the binary symbol f in combination with the following symbol map which also determines the applicative arities of these symbols.

a is mapped to a, a1(x1)
c is mapped to c
b is mapped to b


There are no uncurry rules.
No rules have to be added for the eta-expansion.

Uncurrying the rules and adding the uncurrying rules yields the new set of rules
a1(X) f(X,X) (5)
c a (2)
c b (3)
f(a,y1) a1(y1) (4)

1.1 Dependency Pair Transformation

The following set of initial dependency pairs has been identified.
a1#(X) f#(X,X) (6)
f#(a,y1) a1#(y1) (7)
It remains to prove infiniteness of the resulting DP problem.

1.1.1 Loop

The following loop proves infiniteness of the DP problem.

t0 = f#(a,a)
P a1#(a)
P f#(a,a)
= t2
where t2 = t0