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DefinitionDefinition: Literature-sourcedProof: 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.

Covariant functor, identity functor, composite functor, and contravariant functor

Definition

For categories C,D\mathcal C,\mathcal D (Category, object, morphism, domain, codomain, identity, composition, and hom-collection), a covariant functor F:CDF:\mathcal C\to\mathcal D assigns an object FAFA to every object AA and a morphism Ff:FAFBFf:FA\to FB to every f:ABf:A\to B, satisfying

F(1A)=1FA,F(gf)=FgFf.F(1_A)=1_{FA},\qquad F(g\circ f)=Fg\circ Ff.

The identity functor acts identically on objects and morphisms. For F:CDF:\mathcal C\to\mathcal D and G:DEG:\mathcal D\to\mathcal E, the composite functor GFGF has (GF)A=G(FA)(GF)A=G(FA) and (GF)f=G(Ff)(GF)f=G(Ff).

A contravariant functor from C\mathcal C to D\mathcal D means a covariant functor CopD\mathcal C^{\mathrm{op}}\to\mathcal D, using Opposite category Cop\mathcal C^{\mathrm{op}}.

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