Certification Problem

Input (TPDB TRS_Outermost/Strategy_outermost_added_08/Ex15_Luc98_L)

The rewrite relation of the following TRS is considered.

and(true) X (1)
if(true) X (2)
if(false) Y (3)
add(0) X (4)
and(false) false (5)
add(s) s (6)
first(0,X) nil (7)
first(s,cons) cons (8)
from cons (9)
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 = and(true)
and(true)
= t1
where t1 = t0