DefinitionDefinition: Literature-sourcedProof: Not applicablejudge pass (deepseek-v4-pro + gpt-5.6-terra)audited 2026-08-21

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.

The epigraph and hypograph of a real-valued function

Definition

Let $A \subseteq R^{n}$ and let $f : A \to R$ . The epigraph of $f : A \to R$ is $epi f = {(x, s) \in A \times R : f (x) \leq s}$ .

Its hypograph is

$hypo f : = {(x, s) \in A \times R : s \leq f (x)} .$

Both are subsets of the Cartesian product $A \times R$ (The Cartesian product $A \times B : = {z \in P (P (A \cup B)) : \exists a \in A \exists b \in B z = (a, b)}$ ). When $A$ is not closed, closedness of either set is understood relative to $A \times R$ unless an ambient space is named.

Depends on

The Cartesian product $A \times B := \{\, z \in \mathcal{P}(\mathcal{P}(A \cup B)) : \exists a \in A\ \exists b \in B\ z = (a,b) \,\}$

Used by

Dependency tree · two levels

6 results within two dependency steps of this one, each drawn at its shortest distance from it. An arrow runs from a result to what uses it, so the chart reads left to right and ends at this result, which carries a heavier outline. Every node is a link to that result. Click elsewhere on the chart to enlarge it.

Sources

S. Boyd and L. Vandenberghe, Convex Optimization, §3.1.7 (standard reference, not scraped)
D. Bertsekas, MIT 6.253 Convex Analysis and Optimization, Lecture 2 (standard reference, not scraped)