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YES
We consider the system theBenchmark.

We are asked to determine termination of the following first-order TRS.

  app : [o * o] --> o 
  apply : [] --> o 

  app(app(apply, X), Y) => app(X, Y) 

We use rule removal, following [Kop12, Theorem 2.23].

This gives the following requirements (possibly using Theorems 2.25 and 2.26 in [Kop12]):

  app(app(apply, X), Y) >? app(X, Y) 

We orient these requirements with a polynomial interpretation in the natural numbers.

The following interpretation satisfies the requirements:

  app = \y0y1.3 + y0 + 3y1 
  apply = 3 

Using this interpretation, the requirements translate to:

  [[app(app(apply, _x0), _x1)]] = 9 + 3x0 + 3x1 > 3 + x0 + 3x1 = [[app(_x0, _x1)]] 

We can thus remove the following rules:

  app(app(apply, X), Y) => app(X, Y) 

All rules were succesfully removed.  Thus, termination of the original system has been reduced to termination of the beta-rule, which is well-known to hold.


+++ Citations +++

[Kop12]  C. Kop.  Higher Order Termination.  PhD Thesis, 2012.