On the modularity of confluence in infinitary term rewriting

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We show that, unlike the case in finitary term rewriting, confluence is not a modular property of infinitary term rewriting systems, even when these are non-collapsing. We also give a positive result: two sufficient conditions for the modularity of confluence in the infinitary setting.

Original languageEnglish
Book seriesLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3091
Pages (from-to)185-199
Number of pages15
ISSN0302-9743
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2004

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