************************************************** Claim { termination = Standard , system = (VAR x1) (RULES a -> , a -> b b , b b b c -> c c a a) , deadline = Just (Time -2040305494) } is false because of mirror image R' = { reverse(l) -> reverse(r) | (l -> r) in R } (VAR x1) (RULES a -> , a -> b b , c b b b -> a a c c) admits a looping transport system notation: http://dfa.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/matchbox/methods/loop.pdf pivot p = [ a , a ] block alphabet Gamma = [ [ a ] , [ a , c ] , [ c ] , [ c , a ] , [ c , b ] ] forall g in Gamma: g p ->^* p phi(g) where phi = listToFM [ ( [ a ] , [ [ a ] ] ) , ( [ a , c ] , [ [ a , c ] , [ c , b ] ] ) , ( [ c ] , [ [ c ] , [ c , b ] ] ) , ( [ c , a ] , [ [ c ] , [ c , b ] , [ a ] ] ) , ( [ c , b ] , [ [ c ] , [ c , a ] ] ) ] phi ([ a ]) = [ [ a ] ] because of Derivation { lhs = [ a ] , rhs = [ a ] , hash_value = -165557840 , strict = False , steps = [ ] } phi ([ a , c ]) = [ [ a , c ] , [ c , b ] ] because of Derivation { lhs = [ a , c , a , a ] , rhs = [ a , a , a , c , c , b ] , hash_value = -1720611984 , strict = True , steps = [ Step { rule = 1 , position = 2 } , Step { rule = 1 , position = 4 } , Step { rule = 2 , position = 1 } ] } phi ([ c ]) = [ [ c ] , [ c , b ] ] because of Derivation { lhs = [ c , a , a ] , rhs = [ a , a , c , c , b ] , hash_value = -2122618054 , strict = True , steps = [ Step { rule = 1 , position = 1 } , Step { rule = 1 , position = 3 } , Step { rule = 2 , position = 0 } ] } phi ([ c , a ]) = [ [ c ] , [ c , b ] , [ a ] ] because of Derivation { lhs = [ c , a , a , a ] , rhs = [ a , a , c , c , b , a ] , hash_value = -248959446 , strict = True , steps = [ Step { rule = 1 , position = 1 } , Step { rule = 1 , position = 3 } , Step { rule = 2 , position = 0 } ] } phi ([ c , b ]) = [ [ c ] , [ c , a ] ] because of Derivation { lhs = [ c , b , a , a ] , rhs = [ a , a , c , c , a ] , hash_value = 1914246872 , strict = True , steps = [ Step { rule = 1 , position = 2 } , Step { rule = 2 , position = 0 } ] } start s = [ a , c ] exponent k = 8 phi^k(s) contains s (.. p ..)^k this implies there is a loop starting at s p^k ************************************************** statistics: total atomic proof attempts number = 8, total = 5 maximal = [ Log { what = rfc match bounds (classical) , start = Time -2040311424 , end = Time -2040310920 , duration = 5 , success = False } ] successful atomic proof attempts number = 1, total = 0 maximal = [ Log { what = simplex , start = Time -2040311424 , end = Time -2040311424 , duration = 0 , success = True } ] failed atomic proof attempts number = 7, total = 5 maximal = [ Log { what = rfc match bounds (classical) , start = Time -2040311424 , end = Time -2040310920 , duration = 5 , success = False } ] ************************************************** matchbox general information (including details on proof methods): http://dfa.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/matchbox/ this matchbox implementation uses the SAT solver MiniSat by Niklas Een and Niklas Sörensson http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/FormalMethods/MiniSat/ matchbox process information arguments : --solver=/tmp/tmpLPb48N/matchbox-2007-06-01/minisat --timeout-command=/tmp/tmpLPb48N/matchbox-2007-06-01/timeout --tmpdir=tmp --timeout=60 /tmp/tmp.cimwV4C2QF/a.srs started : Thu Jan 26 12:42:08 CET 2012 finished : Thu Jan 26 12:42:14 CET 2012 run system : Linux uc01-03 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 7 21:35:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 release date : Fri Jun 1 17:36:44 CEST 2007 build date : Fri Jun 1 17:36:44 CEST 2007 build system : Linux dfa 2.6.8-2-k7 #1 Tue Aug 16 14:00:15 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux used clock time: 6 secs