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Convergent rewriting systems on algebraic structures give methods to solve decision problems, to prove coherence results, and to compute homological invariants. These methods are based on higher-dimensional extensions of the critical…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Cyrille Chenavier , Benjamin Dupont , Philippe Malbos

We introduce a sound and complete coinductive proof system for reachability properties in transition systems generated by logically constrained term rewriting rules over an order-sorted signature modulo builtins. A key feature of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Ştefan Ciobâcă , Dorel Lucanu

There are many evaluation strategies for term rewrite systems, but proving termination automatically is usually easiest for innermost rewriting. Several syntactic criteria exist when innermost termination implies full termination. We adapt…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Jan-Christoph Kassing , Florian Frohn , Jürgen Giesl

Automata learning is a popular technique for inferring minimal automata through membership and equivalence queries. In this paper, we generalise learning to the theory of coalgebras. The approach relies on the use of logical formulas as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Simone Barlocco , Clemens Kupke , Jurriaan Rot

We define Collatz representations for a subset of rational numbers and prove that each real number \( x \notin (-1,1) \) can be approximated arbitrarily well by rational numbers which have only \( 2 \)'s and \( 1 \)'s in their Collatz…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Franciszek Kobus

Higher-order rewriting is a framework in which one can write higher-order programs and study their properties. One such property is termination: the situation that for all inputs, the program eventually halts its execution and produces an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Niels van der Weide , Deivid Vale , Cynthia Kop

Minimizing finite automata, proving trace equivalence of labelled transition systems or representing sofic subshifts involve very similar arguments, which suggests the possibility of a unified formalism. We propose finite states…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Titouan Carette , Marc de Visme , Vivien Ducros , Victor Lutfalla , Etienne Moutot

The Collatz conjecture asserts that repeatedly iterating $f(x) = (3x + 1)/2^{a(x)}$, where $a(x)$ is the highest exponent for which $2^{a(x)}$ exactly divides $3x+1$, always lead to $1$ for any odd positive integer $x$. Here, we present an…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Zenon B. Batang

We describe a new method of finding interpolants for classical logic using certain refutation system as a starting point. Refutation can be thought of as an alternative approach to the analysis of formal systems: instead of focusing on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Adam Trybus , Karolina Rożko , Tomasz Skura

We introduce an operational rewriting-based semantics for strictly positive nested higher-order (co)inductive types. The semantics takes into account the "limits" of infinite reduction sequences. This may be seen as a refinement and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Łukasz Czajka

The general setting of this work is the constraint-based synthesis of termination arguments. We consider a restricted class of programs called lasso programs. The termination argument for a lasso program is a pair of a ranking function and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Matthias Heizmann , Jochen Hoenicke , Jan Leike , Andreas Podelski

The concept of a system has proliferated through natural and social sciences. While myriad theories of systems exist, there is no mathematical general theory of systems. In this thesis, we take a first step towards formulating such a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Daniel Cicala

We present a coinductive framework for defining and reasoning about the infinitary analogues of equational logic and term rewriting in a uniform, coinductive way. The setup captures rewrite sequences of arbitrary ordinal length, but it has…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Jörg Endrullis , Helle Hvid Hansen , Dimitri Hendriks , Andrew Polonsky , Alexandra Silva

We study the problem of classification with a reject option for a fixed predictor, applicable in natural language processing. We introduce a new problem formulation for this scenario, and an algorithm minimizing a new surrogate loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Christopher Mohri , Daniel Andor , Eunsol Choi , Michael Collins

Term graph rewriting provides a formalism for implementing term rewriting in an efficient manner by avoiding duplication. Infinitary term rewriting has been introduced to study infinite term reduction sequences. Such infinite reductions can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-07-05 Patrick Bahr

In this paper we are shown the following facts: The probability of increased $ A_{k}=P(T^{k} (x_{0})>T^{k-1} (x_{0})) $, and the probability of decrease $B_{k}=P(T^{k} (x_{0})<T^{k-1} (x_{0}))$ in step $ k $ of a Collataz procedure…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Denis Martínez Tápanes , Jose E. Martínez Serra

Texts present coherent stories that have a particular theme or overall setting, for example science fiction or western. In this paper, we present a text generation method called {\it rewriting} that edits existing human-authored narratives…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Rik Koncel-Kedziorski , Ioannis Konstas , Luke Zettlemoyer , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Several types of term rewriting systems can be distinguished by the way their rules overlap. In particular, we define the classes of prefix, suffix, bottom-up and top-down systems, which generalize similar classes on words. Our aim is to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-29 Antoine Meyer

Transition Algebra (TA) is a type of infinite logic introduced to discuss rewriting systems. The natural deductive proof systems already introduced in TA satisfy completeness for countable signatures. However, it lacks compactness, making…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Go Hashimoto

We propose Reduced Collatz Conjecture that is equivalent to Collatz Conjecture, which states that every positive integer can return to an integer less than it, instead of 1. Reduced Collatz Conjecture is easier to explore because certain…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Wei Ren