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Formal definition
Syntactic unification of first-order terms
E-unification
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Overview
- Logic
- Computer science
- Automated reasoning
- Solving equations
- Expressions Expression (mathematics)
- Uninterpreted function
- Singleton Singleton (mathematics)
- First-order terms
- Logic programming
- Type system
- Hindley–Milner
- Type inference
- Proof assistants Proof assistant
- Isabelle Isabelle (theorem prover)
- Twelf
- LambdaProlog
- SMT solvers SMT solver
- Term rewriting
- Cryptographic protocol
- #Unification of infinite terms Unification (computer science)
- Lexicographical order
- Conor McBride
- Dependently typed
- Epigram Epigram (programming language)
- Robinson's unification algorithm
- Recursive on the number of variables
Formal definition
- Functions Function (mathematics)
- Lambda-term bound variables
- Lambda terms
- P {\displaystyle \mathbb {P} } Power set
- Equivalence relation
- Free theory
- Free object
- Empty theory
- Sentences Sentence (mathematical logic)
- Terms Term (logic)
- Constructors Algebraic specification
- Alpha equivalent
- Finite terms
- Infinite tree Tree (set theory)
- Semigroup
- Associative
- Abelian group
- Commutative
- Identity function
- Constant function
- Postfix notation
- Commutative Commutative property
- Idempotent
Syntactic unification of first-order terms
- Lexicographically
- Subterms
- Identity substitution
- Singleton set
- Jacques Herbrand
- John Alan Robinson
- Directed acyclic graphs Directed acyclic graph
- Object-oriented Object-oriented programming
- Objects Object (computer science)
- Mathematical notation
- Resolution Resolution (logic)
- Prolog
- Variable Variable (programming)
- First-order logic
- Occurs check
- Arities
- Hindley-Milner Hindley–Milner type system
- Haskell Haskell (programming language)
- ML ML (programming language)
Order-sorted unification
- Order-sorted logic
- Overloading in programming languages
- Walther Christoph Walther
- Parametric polymorphism
- C++ template Template (C++)
Unification of infinite terms
- B. Courcelle Bruno Courcelle
- Doi Doi (identifier)
- A. Colmerauer Alain Colmerauer
E-unification
- Equations
- Equalities
- Algorithms
- Equation
- Syntactic unification
- Semi-decidable
- Boolean rings Boolean ring
- K4 Kripke semantics
- Modal algebras Modal algebra
- Commutative rings Commutative ring
- Convergent term rewriting system
- Congruence closure
- Syntactically unifying
- Renamed copy
- Subterm
Higher-order unification
- Undecidable Undecidable problem
- Gérard Huet
- ΛProlog
- Elliptical construction
- Wayne Snyder
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unification terms set displaystyle problem term substitution example variables variable equation higher-order solution logic algorithm first-order called function equations algorithms
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Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Epigram | instance of | in a dependently typed language | 0.80 | text |
| Robinson's unification algorithm can be made recursive on the number of variables | instance of | in a dependently typed language | 0.80 | text |
| in which case a separate termination proof becomes unnecessary.Examples of syntactic unification of first-order termsIn the Prolog syntactical convention a symbol starting with an upper case letter is a variable name | instance of | in a dependently typed language | 0.80 | text |
| in which case a separate termination proof becomes unnecessary | instance of | in a dependently typed language | 0.80 | text |
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