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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.

Generated submodule, cyclic and finitely generated modules, module basis and free module

Definition

Let M be a left R-module and S⊆M. The submodule generated by S is

⟨S⟩R:=⋂{N≤M:S⊆N}.

The family is nonempty because M≤M, and its intersection is a submodule by The one-step submodule criterion; intersections and sums of submodules are submodules. Thus ⟨S⟩R is the smallest submodule of M containing S, just as The subgroup ⟨S⟩ generated by a subset, the cyclic subgroup ⟨g⟩, and cyclic groups defines a generated subgroup.

The module M is cyclic if M=⟨m⟩R for some m∈M, and finitely generated if M=⟨S⟩R for some finite S. A subset B⊆M is a basis if every element of M has a unique expression as a finite R-linear combination of elements of B. A module possessing a basis is a free R-module.

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