A general theorem on termination of rewriting

Jeremy E. Dawson*, Rajeev Goré

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    Abstract

    We re-express our theorem on the strong-normalisation of display calculi as a theorem about the well-foundedness of a certain ordering on first-order terms, thereby allowing us to prove the termination of systems of rewrite rules. We first show how to use our theorem to prove the well-foundedness of the lexicographic ordering, the multiset ordering and the recursive path ordering. Next, we give examples of systems of rewrite rules which cannot be handled by these methods but which can be handled by ours. Finally, we show that our method can also prove the termination of the Knuth-Bendix ordering and of dependency pairs.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    EditorsJerzy Marcinkowski, Andrzej Tarlecki
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages100-114
    Number of pages15
    ISBN (Print)3540230246, 9783540230243
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2004

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume3210
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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