Termination of cycle rewriting by transformation and matrix interpretation

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DOI10.23638/LMCS-13(1:11)2017zbMATH Open1398.68281arXiv1609.07065OpenAlexW2524395091MaRDI QIDQ2980975FDOQ2980975


Authors: David Sabel, Hans Zantema Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 8 May 2017

Abstract: We present techniques to prove termination of cycle rewriting, that is, string rewriting on cycles, which are strings in which the start and end are connected. Our main technique is to transform cycle rewriting into string rewriting and then apply state of the art techniques to prove termination of the string rewrite system. We present three such transformations, and prove for all of them that they are sound and complete. In this way not only termination of string rewriting of the transformed system implies termination of the original cycle rewrite system, a similar conclusion can be drawn for non-termination. Apart from this transformational approach, we present a uniform framework of matrix interpretations, covering most of the earlier approaches to automatically proving termination of cycle rewriting. All our techniques serve both for proving termination and relative termination. We present several experiments showing the power of our techniques.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07065




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