Alphabeta Math
DefinitionDefinition: Literature-sourcedProof: Not applicableaudited 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.

Finite rectangular matrices over a commutative ring, their entries, rows and columns

Definition

Let R be a commutative ring and let m,n∈N. An m×n matrix over R is a function A:m×n⟶R. Its value at (i,j) is written aij. The set of all such matrices is Mm×n(R), and Mn(R):=Mn×n(R).

For i<m, row i is the function j↦aij on n; for j<n, column j is the function i↦aij on m. This includes zero-sized shapes: a matrix with empty index set is the unique function from that empty set.

Depends on

Used by

Dependency tree · two levels

15 results within two dependency steps of this one, each drawn at its shortest distance from it. An arrow runs from a result to what uses it, so the chart reads left to right and ends at this result, which carries a heavier outline. Every node is a link to that result. Click elsewhere on the chart to enlarge it.

Sources