Certification Problem

Input (TPDB SRS_Standard/Mixed_SRS/1)

The rewrite relation of the following TRS is considered.

b(c(x1)) a(b(b(x1))) (1)
b(a(x1)) a(c(b(x1))) (2)

Property / Task

Prove or disprove termination.

Answer / Result

No.

Proof (by AProVE @ termCOMP 2023)

1 Looping derivation

There is a looping derivation.

b c a a c a+ a a c a b a c b c a a c a b b b

The derivation can be derived as follows.