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Termination of Innermost-Terminating Right-Linear Overlay Term Rewrite Systems (Full Version)
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This study investigates whether termination of right-linear overlay term rewriting systems is equivalent to innermost termination. By leveraging the simulation property of innermost reductions with respect to normalizing reduction sequences, the work establishes an equivalence between general dependency pair chains and innermost dependency pair chains within this class of systems. It presents the first proof that termination and innermost termination coincide for right-linear overlay term rewriting systems, thereby reducing termination verification to checking only innermost dependency pair chains. This result substantially lowers the complexity of termination analysis and provides a solid theoretical foundation for the development of automated verification tools in this domain.
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It has been shown that, regarding a terminating right-linear overlay term rewrite system (TRS), any rewrite sequence ending with a normal form can be simulated by the innermost reduction. In this paper, using this simulation property, we show that for a right-linear overlay TRS, there is no infinite minimal dependency-pair chain if and only if there is no infinite innermost minimal dependency-pair chain. This implies that a right-linear overlay TRS is terminating if and only if it is innermost terminating.
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termination
innermost termination
right-linear overlay TRS
dependency pairs
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innermost termination
right-linear overlay TRS
dependency pairs
termination equivalence
simulation property
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