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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.139

T-Rex: Termination of Recursive Functions Using Lexicographic Linear Combinations

Authors: Raphael Douglas Giles, Vincent Jackson, and Christine Rizkallah

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 297, 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)

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We introduce a powerful termination algorithm for structurally recursive functions that improves on the core ideas behind lexicographic termination algorithms for functional programs. The algorithm generates linear-lexicographic combinations of primitive measure functions measuring the recursive structure of terms. We introduce a measure language that enables the simplification and comparison of measures and we prove meta-theoretic properties of our measure language. Moreover, we demonstrate our algorithm, on an untyped first-order functional language and prove its soundness and that it runs in polynomial time. We also provide a Haskell implementation. As part of this work, we also show how to solve the maximisation of negative vector-components as a linear program.

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Raphael Douglas Giles, Vincent Jackson, and Christine Rizkallah. T-Rex: Termination of Recursive Functions Using Lexicographic Linear Combinations. In 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 297, pp. 139:1-139:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{giles_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.139,
  author =	{Giles, Raphael Douglas and Jackson, Vincent and Rizkallah, Christine},
  title =	{{T-Rex: Termination of Recursive Functions Using Lexicographic Linear Combinations}},
  booktitle =	{51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)},
  pages =	{139:1--139:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-322-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{297},
  editor =	{Bringmann, Karl and Grohe, Martin and Puppis, Gabriele and Svensson, Ola},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.139},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-202827},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.139},
  annote =	{Keywords: Termination, Recursive functions}
}

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