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.
Computable many one reducibility interface
Definition
For , write if a total computable satisfies Computability uses Kleene normal form for the fixed machine coding and the encoded partial-function meaning of Partial functions computed by a machine under fixed encodings. Direction is from the membership problem A to the target B.
For an oracle , has the same definition with f total X-computable. An oracle program is a finite ordinary tape program augmented by a query tape and a query instruction: when its tape contains a canonical numeral, receive in one query transition the bit indicating membership of that number in X; malformed queries receive zero. Writing the query costs ordinary transitions. This convention does not assert that X is computable.
For languages over fixed finite alphabets, instead means a total string-valued computable map f with iff on every source word. In the numeric-to-string bridge below, only canonical input numerals have a membership requirement, and their outputs must be canonical. This is not a claim about reductions between unrestricted numeral-image languages.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The definitions above, canonical numeral parsing and finite tape routines. The bridge is restricted to canonical numeral inputs and outputs.
The normal-form theorem supplies machine computability and strict composition of computable routines (Kleene normal form for the fixed machine coding).
Verification
Identity is total computable and preserves membership, so . If f reduces A to B and g reduces B to C, compute f then g; both halt on every natural, and iff iff . The same sequential program works with oracle X for both routines, routing each query to X. String-valued identity and composition obey the identical membership calculation.
Given a numeric reduction f, parse a source word. On a canonical numeral for n, add the numeric machine's tuple wrapper, run f, decode its numeric result and output . On malformed input output the one-letter zero. This is total and meets precisely the canonical-input specification. Conversely a total string map having canonical outputs on all canonical inputs gives a total numeric map by forming , running the map, and decoding its canonical output. The iff of membership is preserved in each direction. These finite encoders/decoders work unchanged relative to X. Malformed input is outside this bridge's specification; choosing zero there would not in general reduce the full numeral-image language if .
Depends on
Used by
- Oracle turing reducibility interface Definition
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Sources
- Patey chapter 5, Definitions 4.1 and 5.2, pp.87–89 (design locator, independently unread) (standard reference, not scraped)