Undecidability of beta equivalence

ID: undecidability-of-beta-equivalence

Beta equivalence is semidecidable: enumerate finite conversion proofs. It is not decidable. A proposed total numeral-valued classifier of two nonempty disjoint beta equivalence classes can be reversed by a Church Boolean selector; a self-quoting fixed point of this reversal then belongs to the opposite class from the classifier output.

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