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DefinitionDefinition: Literature-sourcedProof: Not applicableaudited 2026-08-03
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 external direct product G×H with componentwise multiplication

Definition

Let G and H be groups. Their external direct product has underlying set

G×H:={(g,h):g∈G, h∈H}

and componentwise operation

(g,h)(g′,h′):=(gg′,hh′).

The fact that this operation makes G×H a group, with the indicated identity and inverses, is proved in G×H is a group with identity (eG,eH), coordinatewise inverses, and homomorphic coordinate projections. Until that result is used, this definition introduces only the set and its componentwise binary operation.

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