期刊名称:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
电子版ISSN:2075-2180
出版年度:2010
卷号:42
页码:54-63
DOI:10.4204/EPTCS.42.5
出版社:Open Publishing Association
摘要:We prove that the Tiden and Arnborg algorithm for equational unification modulo one-sided distributivity is not polynomial time bounded as previously thought. A set of counterexamples is developed that demonstrates that the algorithm goes through exponentially many steps.