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Size-based termination of higher-order rewriting

Logic in Computer Science 2018-02-21 v2

Abstract

We provide a general and modular criterion for the termination of simply-typed λ\lambda -calculus extended with function symbols defined by user-defined rewrite rules. Following a work of Hughes, Pareto and Sabry for functions defined with a fixpoint operator and pattern-matching, several criteria use typing rules for bounding the height of arguments in function calls. In this paper, we extend this approach to rewriting-based function definitions and more general user-defined notions of size.

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@article{arxiv.1802.06603,
  title  = {Size-based termination of higher-order rewriting},
  author = {Frédéric Blanqui},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.06603},
  year   = {2018}
}
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