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+(*  v      *   The Coq Proof Assistant  /  The Coq Development Team     *)
+(* <O___,, * CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique-INRIA Futurs-Universite Paris Sud *)
+(*   \VV/  **************************************************************)
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+(*         *       GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1        *)
+(************************************************************************)
+
+(*i $Id: Disjoint_Union.v,v 1.9.2.1 2004/07/16 19:31:19 herbelin Exp $ i*)
+
+(** Author: Cristina Cornes
+    From : Constructing Recursion Operators in Type Theory                 
+           L. Paulson  JSC (1986) 2, 325-355 *) 
+
+Require Import Relation_Operators.
+
+Section Wf_Disjoint_Union.
+Variables A B : Set.
+Variable leA : A -> A -> Prop.
+Variable leB : B -> B -> Prop.
+
+Notation Le_AsB := (le_AsB A B leA leB).
+
+Lemma acc_A_sum : forall x:A, Acc leA x -> Acc Le_AsB (inl B x).
+Proof.
+ induction 1.
+ apply Acc_intro; intros y H2.
+ inversion_clear H2.
+ auto with sets.
+Qed.
+
+Lemma acc_B_sum :
+ well_founded leA -> forall x:B, Acc leB x -> Acc Le_AsB (inr A x).
+Proof.
+ induction 2.
+ apply Acc_intro; intros y H3.
+ inversion_clear H3; auto with sets.
+ apply acc_A_sum; auto with sets.
+Qed.
+
+
+Lemma wf_disjoint_sum :
+ well_founded leA -> well_founded leB -> well_founded Le_AsB.
+Proof.
+ intros.
+ unfold well_founded in |- *.
+ destruct a as [a| b].
+ apply (acc_A_sum a).
+ apply (H a).
+
+ apply (acc_B_sum H b).
+ apply (H0 b).
+Qed.
+
+End Wf_Disjoint_Union.
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