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On First-order Cons-free Term Rewriting and PTIME (1711.03399v2)
Published 9 Nov 2017 in cs.LO and cs.CC
Abstract: In this paper, we prove that (first-order) cons-free term rewriting with a call-by-value reduction strategy exactly characterises the class of PTIME-computable functions. We use this to give an alternative proof of the result by Carvalho and Simonsen which states that cons-free term rewriting with linearity constraints characterises this class.