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AlgorithmAlgorithm: Literature-sourcedProof: Not applicablePipeline-generated
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The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.

  • Literature-sourced: the exact statement appears in a cited source; only wording and notation differ.
  • AI-adapted: a semantically identical restatement of literature-sourced material, modulo indexing, notation, and boundary cases adopted by the library.
  • AI-generated: a genuinely novel statement formulated by AI, with no source for the claim itself.

These labels describe origin, not correctness: citations and verification chips remain separate evidence.

Outward-rounded interval enclosures for factorable expression DAGs on boxes

Definition

Input a box B=∏j[aj,bj]⊆D0 with arbitrary finite ordered real endpoints, a finite real expression DAG from Real intervals, complex rectangles and ball enclosures using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, a precision p≥2, and a dyadic format with fixed exponent bounds. Round each input endpoint outward at precision p, replacing [aj,bj] by [rd⁡p(aj),ru⁡p(bj)]; if an endpoint rounding overflows, return overflow. Thus every interval passed to an interval operation has dyadic endpoints and contains the original box coordinate interval. The same rule applies to a singleton input, including a midpoint point-evaluation path. The DAG must define a real-valued function at every point of B; for each division node its denominator range on B must exclude zero. Each constant is either an exact dyadic, enclosed by [rd⁡p(c),ru⁡p(c)], or is accompanied by a precision-indexed certified interval containing it whose width tends to zero as p→∞. If any constant enclosure overflows or is unavailable, return that status with no finite bound claim. Traverse the finite DAG in topological order. Enclose each input by its outward-rounded interval, each constant by its certified interval at precision p, and apply the corresponding outward-rounded operation from Outward-rounded interval, rectangle and ball operations at precision p. Return the root enclosure Ip(B)=[a−,a+], its lower and upper endpoints, and the exact midpoint of B as a candidate point. If any operation returns overflow, split-domain, domain-error, entire, or inconclusive, return that status with no finite bound claim.

For a continuous objective on an unconstrained box, the midpoint is feasible and a+ is a verified upper bound for its objective value. On a constrained box, the midpoint is only a candidate: a separate feasibility witness is required. To refine arithmetic error, callers increase p along any sequence of shrinking boxes. Fixed exponent bounds must be chosen so no exact intermediate on the certified domain overflows; otherwise the procedure returns an explicit failure status.

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