Cyclic lambda graph rewriting

Abstract
This paper is concerned with the study of cyclic -graphs. The starting point is to treat a -graph as asystem of recursion equations involving -terms, andto manipulate such systems in an unrestricted manner,using equational logic, just as is possible for firstorderterm rewriting. Surprisingly, now the confluenceproperty breaks down in an essential way.Confluence can be restored by introducing a restrainingmechanism on the `copying" operation. Thisleads to a family of -graph calculi,...

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