************************************************** Claim { termination = Standard , system = (VAR x1) (RULES a -> , a a -> b b c , b -> , c b -> b a c) , deadline = Just (Time -2040245610) } is false because of admits a looping transport system notation: http://dfa.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/matchbox/methods/loop.pdf pivot p = [ b , b ] block alphabet Gamma = [ [ b ] , [ c ] ] forall g in Gamma: g p ->^* p phi(g) where phi = listToFM [ ( [ b ] , [ [ b ] ] ) , ( [ c ] , [ [ b ] , [ c ] , [ c ] ] ) ] phi ([ b ]) = [ [ b ] ] because of Derivation { lhs = [ b ] , rhs = [ b ] , hash_value = -165547832 , strict = False , steps = [ ] } phi ([ c ]) = [ [ b ] , [ c ] , [ c ] ] because of Derivation { lhs = [ c , b , b ] , rhs = [ b , b , b , c , c ] , hash_value = -847960582 , strict = True , steps = [ Step { rule = 3 , position = 0 } , Step { rule = 3 , position = 2 } , Step { rule = 2 , position = 2 } , Step { rule = 1 , position = 1 } ] } start s = [ c ] exponent k = 5 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 -2040251565 , end = Time -2040251062 , duration = 5 , success = False } ] successful atomic proof attempts number = 1, total = 0 maximal = [ Log { what = simplex , start = Time -2040251566 , end = Time -2040251566 , duration = 0 , success = True } ] failed atomic proof attempts number = 7, total = 5 maximal = [ Log { what = rfc match bounds (classical) , start = Time -2040251565 , end = Time -2040251062 , 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/tmp2xV4B8/matchbox-2007-06-01/minisat --timeout-command=/tmp/tmp2xV4B8/matchbox-2007-06-01/timeout --tmpdir=tmp --timeout=60 /tmp/tmp.yB4nB2T0yv/a.srs started : Thu Jan 26 12:52:01 CET 2012 finished : Thu Jan 26 12:52:07 CET 2012 run system : Linux uc01-11 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 03:40:32 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