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Sorting information arises naturally in E-unification problems. This information is used to rule out invalid solutions. We show how to use sorting information to make E-unification procedures more efficient. We illustrate our ideas using Basic Syntactic Mutation. We give classes of problems where E-unification becomes polynomial. We show how E-unification can be separated into a polynomial part and a more complicated part using a specialized algorithm. Our approach is motivated by a real problem arising from Cryptographic Protocol Verification.
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Lynch, C., Morawska, B. (2005). Faster Basic Syntactic Mutation with Sorts for Some Separable Equational Theories. In: Giesl, J. (eds) Term Rewriting and Applications. RTA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3467. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32033-3_8
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