YES After renaming modulo { b->0, a->1 }, it remains to prove termination of the 4-rule system { 0 0 -> 0 1 0 , 0 0 1 0 -> 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 , 0 1 0 -> 0 1 1 0 , 0 1 1 0 1 0 -> 0 0 } Applying the dependency pairs transformation. After renaming modulo { (0,true)->0, (0,false)->1, (1,false)->2 }, it remains to prove termination of the 14-rule system { 0 1 -> 0 2 1 , 0 1 -> 0 , 0 1 2 1 -> 0 2 1 2 2 1 1 , 0 1 2 1 -> 0 2 2 1 1 , 0 1 2 1 -> 0 1 , 0 1 2 1 -> 0 , 0 2 1 -> 0 2 2 1 , 0 2 1 -> 0 , 0 2 2 1 2 1 -> 0 1 , 0 2 2 1 2 1 -> 0 , 1 1 ->= 1 2 1 , 1 1 2 1 ->= 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 , 1 2 1 ->= 1 2 2 1 , 1 2 2 1 2 1 ->= 1 1 } The system was filtered by the following matrix interpretation of type E_J with J = {1,...,2} and dimension 4: 0 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 | \ / 1 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 1 1 | | 0 1 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 | \ / 2 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 | | 0 0 0 1 | | 0 0 0 0 | \ / After renaming modulo { 0->0, 1->1, 2->2 }, it remains to prove termination of the 9-rule system { 0 1 -> 0 2 1 , 0 1 -> 0 , 0 1 2 1 -> 0 2 1 2 2 1 1 , 0 1 2 1 -> 0 2 2 1 1 , 0 2 1 -> 0 2 2 1 , 0 2 1 -> 0 , 1 1 ->= 1 2 1 , 1 1 2 1 ->= 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 , 1 2 2 1 2 1 ->= 1 1 } The system was filtered by the following matrix interpretation of type E_J with J = {1,...,2} and dimension 4: 0 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 1 0 | | 0 1 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 | | 0 0 0 0 | \ / 1 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 1 0 | | 0 1 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 | \ / 2 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 | | 0 0 0 1 | | 0 0 0 0 | \ / After renaming modulo { 0->0, 1->1, 2->2 }, it remains to prove termination of the 5-rule system { 0 1 -> 0 2 1 , 0 1 2 1 -> 0 2 1 2 2 1 1 , 1 1 ->= 1 2 1 , 1 1 2 1 ->= 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 , 1 2 2 1 2 1 ->= 1 1 } 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 0 | \ / 2 is interpreted by / \ | 1 0 0 | | 0 1 0 | | 0 0 0 | \ / After renaming modulo { 1->0, 2->1 }, it remains to prove termination of the 3-rule system { 0 0 ->= 0 1 0 , 0 0 1 0 ->= 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 , 0 1 1 0 1 0 ->= 0 0 } The system is trivially terminating.