Proving Productivity in Infinite Data Structures
Hans Zantema, Matthias Raffelsieper · TU/e Research Portal · 2010
For a general class of infinite data structures including streams, binary trees, and the combination of finite and infinite lists, we investigate the notion of productivity. This generalizes stream productivity. We develop a general technique to prove productivity based on proving context-sensitive termination, by which the power of present termination tools can be exploited. In order to treat cases where the approach does not apply directly, we develop transformations extending the power of the basic approach. We present a tool combining these ingredients that can prove productivity of a wide range of examples fully automatically.