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Are the existential fragment or the positive fragment of the theory of one-step rewriting decidable?

The source page states the original problem together with its recorded qualifications and progress updates as follows.

For a given signature Σ\Sigma and rewrite system RR, the theory of one-step rewriting by RR is the first order theory of the model comprising all Σ\Sigma-ground-terms, and the binary predicate \textit{xx rewrites to yy in one rewrite step of RR}.

It is well-known that the full first-order theory is undecidable, even for strong restrictions on the class of rewrite systems (see RTALooP entry one-step-theory). Is the existential fragment of this theory (in other words: satisfiability of quantifier-free formulas) decidable? Is the positive fragment (arbitrary quantification, but no negation or implications) decidable?

It is known that the positive existential fragment is decidable [Treinen, 1996], and there are decidability results for the full existential fragment in case of restricted classes of rewrite systems [Treinen, 1996].

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