YES After renaming modulo { a->0, b->1, c->2 }, it remains to prove termination of the 3-rule system { 0 1 -> 1 2 0 , 1 2 -> 2 1 1 , 0 2 -> 2 0 1 } The system was reversed. After renaming modulo { 1->0, 0->1, 2->2 }, it remains to prove termination of the 3-rule system { 0 1 -> 1 2 0 , 2 0 -> 0 0 2 , 2 1 -> 0 1 2 } Applying the dependency pairs transformation. After renaming modulo { (0,true)->0, (1,false)->1, (2,true)->2, (0,false)->3, (2,false)->4 }, it remains to prove termination of the 10-rule system { 0 1 -> 2 3 , 0 1 -> 0 , 2 3 -> 0 3 4 , 2 3 -> 0 4 , 2 3 -> 2 , 2 1 -> 0 1 4 , 2 1 -> 2 , 3 1 ->= 1 4 3 , 4 3 ->= 3 3 4 , 4 1 ->= 3 1 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 0 | | 0 1 | \ / 3 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 | | 0 1 | \ / 4 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 | | 0 1 | \ / After renaming modulo { 2->0, 3->1, 0->2, 4->3, 1->4 }, it remains to prove termination of the 7-rule system { 0 1 -> 2 1 3 , 0 1 -> 2 3 , 0 1 -> 0 , 0 4 -> 2 4 3 , 1 4 ->= 4 3 1 , 3 1 ->= 1 1 3 , 3 4 ->= 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 1 | | 0 1 | \ / After renaming modulo { 0->0, 1->1, 4->2, 3->3 }, it remains to prove termination of the 4-rule system { 0 1 -> 0 , 1 2 ->= 2 3 1 , 3 1 ->= 1 1 3 , 3 2 ->= 1 2 3 } The system was filtered by the following matrix interpretation of type E_J with J = {1,...,2} and dimension 3: 0 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 1 | | 0 1 0 | | 0 0 0 | \ / 1 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 | | 0 1 0 | | 0 1 1 | \ / 2 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 | | 0 1 0 | | 0 0 0 | \ / 3 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 | | 0 1 0 | | 0 1 2 | \ / After renaming modulo { 1->0, 2->1, 3->2 }, it remains to prove termination of the 3-rule system { 0 1 ->= 1 2 0 , 2 0 ->= 0 0 2 , 2 1 ->= 0 1 2 } The system is trivially terminating.