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Computing linearizations using test sets

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Often non left-linear rules in term rewriting systems can be replaced by a finite set of left-linear ones without changing the set of irreducible ground terms. Using appropriate test sets, we can always decide if this is possible and, in case it is, effectively perform such a transformation. We thus can also decide if the set of irreducible ground terms is a regular tree language, using a result of Kucherov.

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Michaël Rusinowitch Jean-Luc Rémy

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Hofbauer, D., Huber, M. (1993). Computing linearizations using test sets. In: Rusinowitch, M., Rémy, JL. (eds) Conditional Term Rewriting Systems. CTRS 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 656. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56393-8_21

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