The Z Property

Bertram Felgenhauer, Julian Nagele, Vincent van Oostrom and Christian Sternagel 📧

June 30, 2016

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Abstract

We formalize the Z property introduced by Dehornoy and van Oostrom. First we show that for any abstract rewrite system, Z implies confluence. Then we give two examples of proofs using Z: confluence of lambda-calculus with respect to beta-reduction and confluence of combinatory logic.

License

BSD License

Topics

Session Rewriting_Z