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How statement and proof provenance work

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.

Complex logarithms, the principal logarithm, and principal and multivalued complex powers

Definition

For z0z\ne0 with principal polar form z=r(cosθ+isinθ)z=r(\cos\theta+i\sin\theta), π<θπ-\pi<\theta\le\pi, define the principal logarithm Logz:=logr+iθ.\operatorname{Log}z:=\log r+i\theta. The set of all complex logarithms of zz is logmultiz:={vC:expv=z}.\log_{\mathrm{multi}}z:=\{v\in\mathbb C:\exp v=z\}. For wCw\in\mathbb C, define the principal power and the multivalued power respectively by zprw:=exp(wLogz),zmultiw:={exp(wv):vlogmultiz}.z^w_{\mathrm{pr}}:=\exp(w\operatorname{Log}z),\qquad z^w_{\mathrm{multi}}:=\{\exp(wv):v\in\log_{\mathrm{multi}}z\}. Thus the first is one specified complex number and the second is a set of complex numbers; neither notation silently identifies them. The conventions and prerequisite facts used below are recorded in Every nonzero complex number has a unique polar form r(cosθ+isinθ)r(\cos\theta+i\sin\theta) with r>0r>0 and π<θπ-\pi<\theta\le\pi, The natural logarithm as the inverse of the exponential function, The complex exponential by its power series, The complex numbers form a field, and every nonzero x+iyx+iy has inverse (xiy)/(x2+y2)(x-iy)/(x^2+y^2).

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