Certification Problem

Input (TPDB TRS_Standard/Endrullis_06/linear1)

The rewrite relation of the following TRS is considered.

a(a(f(b,a(x)))) f(a(a(a(x))),b) (1)
a(a(x)) f(b,a(f(a(x),b))) (2)
f(a(x),b) f(b,a(x)) (3)

Property / Task

Prove or disprove termination.

Answer / Result

Yes.

Proof (by AProVE @ termCOMP 2023)

1 Dependency Pair Transformation

The following set of initial dependency pairs has been identified.
a#(a(f(b,a(x)))) f#(a(a(a(x))),b) (4)
a#(a(f(b,a(x)))) a#(a(a(x))) (5)
a#(a(f(b,a(x)))) a#(a(x)) (6)
a#(a(x)) f#(b,a(f(a(x),b))) (7)
a#(a(x)) a#(f(a(x),b)) (8)
a#(a(x)) f#(a(x),b) (9)
f#(a(x),b) f#(b,a(x)) (10)

1.1 Dependency Graph Processor

The dependency pairs are split into 1 component.