Perfect discrimination graphs: indexing terms with integer exponents

  • Authors:
  • Hicham Bensaid;Ricardo Caferra;Nicolas Peltier

  • Affiliations:
  • ,INPT/LIG, Avenue Allal Al Fassi, Madinat Al Irfane, Rabat, Morocco;Grenoble University (LIG/CNRS) Bâtiment IMAG C – 220, rue de la Chimie, Saint Martin d'Hères, France;Grenoble University (LIG/CNRS) Bâtiment IMAG C – 220, rue de la Chimie, Saint Martin d'Hères, France

  • Venue:
  • IJCAR'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Automated Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Perfect discrimination trees [12] are used by many efficient resolution and superposition-based theorem provers (e.g. E-prover [17], Waldmeister [10], Logic Reasoner, ...) in order to efficiently implement rewriting and unit subsumption. We extend this indexing technique to handle a class of terms with integer exponents (or I-terms), a schematisation language allowing to capture sequences of iterated patterns [8]. We provide an algorithm to construct the so called perfect discrimination graphs from I-terms and to retrieve indexed I-terms from their instances. Our research is essentially motivated (but not restricted to) by some approaches to inductive proofs, for which termination of the proof procedure is capital.