Four equivalent equivalences of reductions

V. van Oostrom, R.C. de Vrijer

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Abstract

Two co-initial reductions in a term rewriting system are said to be equivalent if they perform the same steps, albeit maybe in a different order. We present four characterisations of such a notion of equivalence, based on permutation, standardisation, labelling and projection, respectively. We prove that the characterisations all yield the same notion of equivalence, for the class of first-order left-linear term rewriting systems. A crucial rôle in our development is played by the notion of a proof term. ©2002 Published by Elsevier Science B. V.
Original languageEnglish
JournalElectronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science
Volume70
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2002

Bibliographical note

DBLP:journals/entcs/OostromV02
Proceedings title: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Reduction Strategies in Rewriting and Programming (WRS 2002)
Publisher: Elsevier

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