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Choose $x$ fresh for $F$ and put $H=\lambda x.F(Ax(Cx))$, $Q=Hd(H)$. The preceding coding equations giveConsequentlyThis self-quoting fixed point is valid even if $F$ has free variables, since the effective Gödel numbering codes open lambda terms too. Freshness of $x$ prevents variable capture.

There is an argument-order defect in the printed flip context: the discriminator constructed above takes its numeral first. Fix $U\in \mathcal{U},V\in \mathcal{V}$ and useEquivalently, define $E=\lambda uvn.Dnuv$ and write the context as $\lambda x.EUV(Gx)$. This is an explicit permutation of the discriminator arguments, not an assumption that $DUV(Gx)$ has the required behavior.

Let $Q{\equiv }_{\beta }Fd(Q)$ be the self-quoting fixed point. There are exactly two cases. If $Gd(Q){\equiv }_{\beta }{c}_0$, then $Q{\equiv }_{\beta }U$, so closure under beta equivalence puts $Q$ in $\mathcal{U}$ and forces $Gd(Q){\equiv }_{\beta }{c}_1$. If $Gd(Q){\equiv }_{\beta }{c}_1$, then $Q{\equiv }_{\beta }V\in \mathcal{V}$, forcing $Gd(Q){\equiv }_{\beta }{c}_0$. Both contradict the distinct beta-normal Church numerals $c_0,c_1$. Hence no such total binary lambda classifier exists.

If beta equivalence were decidable, its decision algorithm would give a total computable function that outputs one exactly on codes of terms beta-equivalent to $I$, and zero on all other codes. Its numeral representation would be such a $G$, taking $\mathcal{U}$ to be the class of $I$ and $\mathcal{V}$ its complement. Both are nonempty: $K$ has a different beta-normal form from $I$. The contradiction proves beta equality is undecidable. It is nevertheless semidecidable, since finite conversion proofs can be effectively enumerated.

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.