YES # Compositional critical pair system (Shintani and Hirokawa 2022). Consider the left-linear TRS R: f(g(x)) -> h(g(x),g(x)) f(s(x)) -> h(s(x),s(x)) g(x) -> s(x) Let C be the following subset of R: (empty) The critical pair system CPS(R,C) is: f(g(y0)) -> f(s(y0)) f(g(y0)) -> h(g(y0),g(y0)) All pairs in PCP(R) are joinable and PCPS(R,C)/R is terminating. Therefore, the confluence of R follows from that of C. # emptiness The empty TRS is confluent.