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A New Result about the Decidability of the Existential One-Step Rewriting Theory

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We give a decision procedure for the whole existential fragment of one-step rewriting first-order theory, in the case where rewrite systems are linear, non left-left-overlapping (i.e. without critical pairs), and non ∈-left-right-overlapping (i.e. no left-hand-side overlaps on top with the right-hand-side of the same rewrite rule1). The procedure is defined by means of tree-tuple synchronized grammars.

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Limet, S., Réty, P. (1999). A New Result about the Decidability of the Existential One-Step Rewriting Theory. In: Narendran, P., Rusinowitch, M. (eds) Rewriting Techniques and Applications. RTA 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1631. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48685-2_10

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