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Decidability of the unification problem for second-order languages with unary functional symbols

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Translated from Kibernetika, No. 5, pp. 120–125, September–October, 1979.

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Zhezherun, A.P. Decidability of the unification problem for second-order languages with unary functional symbols. Cybern Syst Anal 15, 735–741 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01071228

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