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DefinitionDefinition: Literature-sourcedProof: Not applicablePipeline-generatedverified 2026-09-26 (gpt-6-sol)
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.

Logspace many-one reduction

Definition

For languages A,B⊆Σ∗, write A≤log⁡B if a deterministic read-only-input logspace transducer computes a total function f with x∈A⟺f(x)∈B. The transducer writes f(x) once on a write-only output stream. Equivalently, there is a fixed polynomial p with ∣f(x)∣≤p(∣x∣) and a deterministic procedure which, on read-only input (x,j) with j in binary, uses O(log⁡(∣x∣+2)) work cells for every j. It returns f(x)j when 0≤j<∣f(x)∣ and a distinct end-of-output marker exactly when j≥∣f(x)∣; thus the first marker occurs at position ∣f(x)∣. A streaming transducer can count through positions up to p(∣x∣), emitting bits and stopping at the first marker. Conversely, a streaming transducer can be rerun while counting output bits up to a requested position; a binary position larger than the polynomial bound can be recognized by a logspace comparison and answered with the marker. The stream's output length is polynomially bounded: since the write-only output cannot affect its future behavior and it has only polynomially many internal configurations, repeating one before halting would force an infinite run.

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