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DefinitionDefinition: AI-adaptedProof: Not applicableSession-authored (Fable 5 assisted)audited 2026-08-11
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.

Rooted trees of finite sequences, levels, branches, and finite branching, with ordered finite successor sets

Definition

Let N\mathbb N be The natural numbers N\mathbb{N} (von Neumann). A rooted tree of finite sequences is a nonempty set TT of finite sequences of naturals such that the empty sequence belongs to TT and every initial segment of a member of TT also belongs to TT.

The level TnT_n consists of the sequences in TT of length nn. A node tat^\frown a is an immediate successor of tt when it is obtained by appending aNa\in\mathbb N. The tree is finitely branching when each node has only finitely many immediate successors (The cardinality A\lvert A\rvert of a finite set). Their labels inherit the natural order of Order on the natural numbers, so every nonempty successor set has a least member.

An infinite branch is a function b:NNb:\mathbb N\to\mathbb N such that the initial segment (b(0),,b(n1))(b(0),\ldots,b(n-1)) lies in TnT_n for every nn. The empty initial segment is the root, and finite branching permits a node to have no successors; the hypotheses of an infinity lemma must rule out termination along the branch it constructs.

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