Certification Problem

Input (COPS 571)

We consider the TRS containing the following rules:

+(0,0) → 0 (1)
+(s(x),y) → s(+(x,y)) (2)
+(x,s(y)) → s(+(y,x)) (3)

The underlying signature is as follows:

{+/2, 0/0, s/1}

Property / Task

Prove or disprove confluence.

Answer / Result

No.

Proof (by ACP @ CoCo 2020)

1 Non-Joinable Fork

The system is not confluent due to the following forking derivations.

t0 = +(s(c_1),s(c_2))
→ s(+(c_1,s(c_2)))
→ s(s(+(c_2,c_1)))
= t2

t0 = +(s(c_1),s(c_2))
→ s(+(c_2,s(c_1)))
→ s(s(+(c_1,c_2)))
= t2

The two resulting terms cannot be joined for the following reason: