Some Independent Results for Equational Unification

For finite convergent term-rewriting systems the equational unification problem is shown to be recursively independent of the equational matching problem, the word matching problem, and the (simultaneous) 2nd-order equational matching problem. We also present some new decidability results for simultaneous equational unification and 2nd-order equational matching.

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