We study the termination of sole combinatory calculus, which consists of only one combinator. Specifically, the termination for non-erasing combinators is disproven by finding a desirable tree automaton with a SAT solver as done for term rewriting systems by Endrullis and Zantema. We improved their technique to apply to non-erasing sole combinatory calculus, in which it suffices to search for tree automata with a final sink state. Our method succeeds in disproving the termination of 8 combinators, whose termination has been an open problem.
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