TY - GEN
T1 - An implicit characterization of the polynomial-time decidable sets by cons-free rewriting
AU - de Carvalho, Daniel Bruno
AU - Simonsen, Jakob Grue
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - We define the class of constrained cons-free rewriting systems and show that this class characterizes P, the set of languages decidable in polynomial time on a deterministic Turing machine. The main novelty of the characterization is that it allows very liberal properties of term rewriting, in particular non-deterministic evaluation: no reduction strategy is enforced, and systems are allowed to be non-confluent.
AB - We define the class of constrained cons-free rewriting systems and show that this class characterizes P, the set of languages decidable in polynomial time on a deterministic Turing machine. The main novelty of the characterization is that it allows very liberal properties of term rewriting, in particular non-deterministic evaluation: no reduction strategy is enforced, and systems are allowed to be non-confluent.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-08918-8_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-08918-8_13
M3 - Article in proceedings
SN - 978-3-319-08917-1
T3 - Lecture notes in computer science
SP - 179
EP - 193
BT - Rewriting and typed lambda calculi
A2 - Dowek, Gilles
PB - Springer Science+Business Media
T2 - Joint International Conference, RTA-TLCA 2014
Y2 - 14 July 2014 through 17 July 2014
ER -