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The main result is that there is an integer n, such that second-order unification is undecidable in all non-monadic second-order term languages with at least n first-order variables, and even if the arguments of all second-order variables are ground terms of size bounded by n and the total number of variable occurrences is at most n.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The main result is that there is an integer n, such that second-order unification is undecidable in all non-monadic second-order term languages with at least n first-order variables, and even if the arguments of all second-order variables are ground terms of size bounded by n and the total number of variable occurrences is at most 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