Critical pair

In mathematics, a critical pair may refer to:

• Critical pair (term rewriting), terms resulting from two overlapping rules in a term rewriting system
• Critical pair (order theory), two incomparable elements of a partial order that could be made comparable without changing any other relation in the partial order
• The pair of polynomials associated with an S-polynomial in Buchberger's algorithm for computing a Gröbner basis

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