<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 17, 2022, at 10:17 AM, Benjamin Redelings <<a href="mailto:benjamin.redelings@gmail.com" class="">benjamin.redelings@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">But supposing I do get there, I'm curious if there are some papers on term-rewriting that would be helpful to set the context? The OutsideIn paper mentions Kapur (1997) "Shostak's congruence closure as completion" in support of the flattening idea.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I'm not aware of any, but I think looking for some is a good idea. For better or worse, the current approach was freshly invented; looking for prior art might have yielded something better.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Richard</div></body></html>