Certification Problem

Input (TPDB TRS_Standard/Applicative_05/TypeEx5)

The rewrite relation of the following TRS is considered.

ap(ap(g,x),y) y (1)
ap(f,x) ap(f,app(g,x)) (2)

Property / Task

Prove or disprove termination.

Answer / Result

No.

Proof (by ttt2 @ termCOMP 2023)

1 Loop

The following loop proves nontermination.

t0 = ap(f,x)
ap(f,app(g,x))
= t1
where t1 = t0σ and σ = {x/app(g,x)}