Certification Problem

Input (COPS 439)

The rewrite relation of the following conditional TRS is considered.

last(cons(x,y)) → x | y ≈ nil
last(cons(x,y)) → z | y ≈ cons(u,v), last(y) ≈ z

Property / Task

Prove or disprove confluence.

Answer / Result

Yes.

Proof (by ConCon @ CoCo 2020)

1 Inlining of Conditions

Inlining of conditions results in the following transformed CTRS having the same multistep rewrite relation.
last(cons(x,y)) → x | y ≈ nil
last(cons(x,y)) → last(y) | y ≈ cons(u,v)

1.1 Almost-orthogonal modulo infeasibility

The given (extended) properly oriented, right-stable, oriented 3-CTRS is almost-orthogonal modulo infeasibility, since all its conditional critical pairs are infeasible.