The Decidability of the First-Order Theory of the Knuth-Bendix Order in the Case of Unary Signatures

  • Authors:
  • Konstantin Korovin;Andrei Voronkov

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • FST TCS '02 Proceedings of the 22nd Conference Kanpur on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We show that the first-order theory of any Knuth-Bendix order in the case of the signatures consisting of unary function symbols and constants is decidable. Our decision procedure uses interpretation of unary terms as trees and uses decidability of the weak monadic second-order theory of binary trees. One area of applications of our result is automated deduction, since using the first-order theory of the Knuth-Bendix orders we can decide an important class of ordering constraints.