Matrix interpretations generalize linear polynomial interpretations and have been proved useful in the implementation of tools for automatically proving termination of Term Rewriting Systems. In view of the successful use of rational coefficients in polynomial interpretations, we have recently generalized traditional matrix interpretations (using natural numbers in the matrix entries) to incorporate real numbers. However, existing results which formally prove that polynomials over the reals are more powerful than polynomials over the naturals for proving termination of rewrite systems failed to be extended to matrix interpretations. In this paper we get deeper into this problem. We show that, under some conditions, it is possible to transform a matrix interpretation over the rationals satisfying a set of symbolic constraints into a matrix interpretation over the naturals (using bigger matrices) which still satisfies the constraints. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Lucas, S. (2010). From matrix interpretations over the rationals to matrix interpretations over the naturals. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6167 LNAI, pp. 116–131). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14128-7_11
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