{"title":"On the arithmetic inexpressiveness of term rewriting systems","authors":"S. Vorobyov","doi":"10.1109/LICS.1988.5120","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Unquantified Presburger arithmetic is proved to be nonaxiomatizable by a canonical (i.e. Noetherian and confluent) term-rewriting system, if Boolean connectives are not allowed in the left-hand sides of the rewrite rules. It is conjectured that the same is true if the number of Boolean connectives in left-hand sides of the rules is uniformly bounded by an arbitrary natural number.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":425186,"journal":{"name":"[1988] Proceedings. Third Annual Information Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1988-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"[1988] Proceedings. Third Annual Information Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS.1988.5120","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Unquantified Presburger arithmetic is proved to be nonaxiomatizable by a canonical (i.e. Noetherian and confluent) term-rewriting system, if Boolean connectives are not allowed in the left-hand sides of the rewrite rules. It is conjectured that the same is true if the number of Boolean connectives in left-hand sides of the rules is uniformly bounded by an arbitrary natural number.<>