Counterexamples to completeness results for basic narrowing:

Abstract: "In this paper we analyze completeness results for basic narrowing. We show that basic narrowing is not complete with respect to normalizable solutions for equational theories defined by confluent term rewriting systems, contrary to what has been conjectured. By imposing syntactic res...

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Main Authors: Middeldorp, Aart 1963- (Author), Hamoen, Erik (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam 1991
Series:Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica <Amsterdam> / Department of Computer Science: Report CS 91,54
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Summary:Abstract: "In this paper we analyze completeness results for basic narrowing. We show that basic narrowing is not complete with respect to normalizable solutions for equational theories defined by confluent term rewriting systems, contrary to what has been conjectured. By imposing syntactic restrictions on the rewrite rules we recover completeness. We refute a result of Holldobler which states the completeness of basic conditional narrowing for complete (i.e. confluent and terminating) conditional term rewriting systems without extra variables in the conditions of the rewrite rules
In the last part of the paper we extend the completeness result of Giovannetti and Moiso for level-confluent and terminating conditional systems with extra variables in the conditions to systems that may also have extra variables in the right-hand sides of the rules.
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