Innermost Reachability and Context Sensitive Reachability Properties Are Decidable for Linear Right-Shallow Term Rewriting Systems

  • Authors:
  • Yoshiharu Kojima;Masahiko Sakai

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Japan 464-8603;Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Japan 464-8603

  • Venue:
  • RTA '08 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A reachability problem is a problem used to decide whether s is reachable to tby Ror not for a given two terms s, tand a term rewriting system R. Since it is known that this problem is undecidable, effort has been devoted to finding subclasses of term rewriting systems in which the reachability is decidable. However few works on decidability exist for innermost reduction strategy or context-sensitive rewriting.In this paper, we show that innermost reachability and contextsensitive reachability are decidable for linear right-shallow term rewriting systems. Our approach is based on the tree automata technique that is commonly used for analysis of reachability and its related properties.