YES After renaming modulo { a->0, b->1, c->2 }, it remains to prove termination of the 3-rule system { 0 -> 1 , 0 1 1 -> 2 , 2 2 -> 0 1 2 0 } Applying the dependency pairs transformation. After renaming modulo { (0,true)->0, (1,false)->1, (2,true)->2, (2,false)->3, (0,false)->4 }, it remains to prove termination of the 7-rule system { 0 1 1 -> 2 , 2 3 -> 0 1 3 4 , 2 3 -> 2 4 , 2 3 -> 0 , 4 ->= 1 , 4 1 1 ->= 3 , 3 3 ->= 4 1 3 4 } The system was filtered by the following matrix interpretation of type E_J with J = {1,...,2} and dimension 2: 0 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 | | 0 1 | \ / 1 is interpreted by / \ | 1 1 | | 0 1 | \ / 2 is interpreted by / \ | 1 2 | | 0 1 | \ / 3 is interpreted by / \ | 1 3 | | 0 1 | \ / 4 is interpreted by / \ | 1 1 | | 0 1 | \ / After renaming modulo { 0->0, 1->1, 2->2, 3->3, 4->4 }, it remains to prove termination of the 5-rule system { 0 1 1 -> 2 , 2 3 -> 0 1 3 4 , 4 ->= 1 , 4 1 1 ->= 3 , 3 3 ->= 4 1 3 4 } The system was filtered by the following matrix interpretation of type E_J with J = {1,...,2} and dimension 5: 0 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 1 0 | | 0 1 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 | \ / 1 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 1 | | 0 0 1 0 0 | \ / 2 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 1 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 | \ / 3 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 0 | | 0 0 1 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 0 | \ / 4 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 1 1 | | 0 0 1 0 0 | \ / After renaming modulo { 0->0, 1->1, 2->2, 4->3, 3->4 }, it remains to prove termination of the 4-rule system { 0 1 1 -> 2 , 3 ->= 1 , 3 1 1 ->= 4 , 4 4 ->= 3 1 4 3 } The system was filtered by the following matrix interpretation of type E_J with J = {1,...,2} and dimension 2: 0 is interpreted by / \ | 1 1 | | 0 1 | \ / 1 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 | | 0 1 | \ / 2 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 | | 0 1 | \ / 3 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 | | 0 1 | \ / 4 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 | | 0 1 | \ / After renaming modulo { 3->0, 1->1, 4->2 }, it remains to prove termination of the 3-rule system { 0 ->= 1 , 0 1 1 ->= 2 , 2 2 ->= 0 1 2 0 } The system is trivially terminating.