Chew's theorem revisited - uniquely normalizing property of nonlinear term rewriting systems

This paper gives a purely syntactical proof, based on proof normalization techniques, of an extension of Chew's theorem. The main theorem is that a weakly compatible TRS is uniquely normalizing. Roughly speaking, the weakly compatible condition allows possibly nonlinear TRSs to have nonroot overlapping rules that return the same results. This result implies the consistency of CL-pc which is an extension of the combinatory logic CL with parallel-if rules