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Union of Finitely Generated Congruences on Ground Term Algebra

Symbolic Computation 2025-10-17 v2 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

We show that for any ground term equation systems EE and FF, (1) the union of the generated congruences by EE and FF is a congruence on the ground term algebra if and only if there exists a ground term equation system HH such that the congruence generated by HH is equal to the union of the congruences generated by EE and FF if and only if the congruence generated by the union of EE and FF is equal to the union of the congruences generated by EE and FF, and (2) it is decidable in square time whether the congruence generated by the union of EE and FF is equal to the union of the congruences generated by EE and FF, where the size of the input is the number of occurrences of symbols in EE plus the number of occurrences of symbols in FF.

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@article{arxiv.2411.14559,
  title  = {Union of Finitely Generated Congruences on Ground Term Algebra},
  author = {Sándor Vágvölgyi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.14559},
  year   = {2025}
}

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