Treffer: Termination of S-expression rewriting systems: Lexicographic path ordering for higher-order terms

Title:
Termination of S-expression rewriting systems: Lexicographic path ordering for higher-order terms
Source:
RTA 2004 : rewriting techniques and applications (Aachen, 3-5 June 2004)Lecture notes in computer science. :40-54
Publisher Information:
Berlin: Springer, 2004.
Publication Year:
2004
Physical Description:
print, 15 ref
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Document Type:
Konferenz Conference Paper
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
RIEC, Tohoku University, Katahira 2-1-1, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
ISSN:
0302-9743
Rights:
Copyright 2004 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Computer science; theoretical automation; systems
Accession Number:
edscal.15851902
Database:
PASCAL Archive

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This paper expands the termination proof techniques based on the lexicographic path ordering to term rewriting systems over varyadic terms, in which each function symbol may have more than one arity. By removing the deletion property from the usual notion of the embedding relation, we adapt Kruskal's tree theorem to the lexicographic comparison over varyadic terms. The result presented is that finite term rewriting systems over varyadic terms are terminating whenever they are compatible with the lexicographic path order. The ordering is simple, but powerful enough to handle most of higher-order rewriting systems without A-abstraction, expressed as S-expression rewriting systems.