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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.

Rectangular matrix multiplication and the identity matrix In, including zero-sized shapes

Definition

Let F be a field, let m,n,p∈N, and let A=(aij)∈Mm×n(F) and B=(bjk)∈Mn×p(F). Their matrix product is the matrix AB∈Mm×p(F) whose entries are

(AB)ik:=∑j∈naijbjk.

The sum is the finite sum in the additive commutative monoid of F. If n=0, it is the empty sum, so AB is the zero matrix of shape m by p.

The identity matrix In∈Mn(F) has entry 1 when i=j and entry 0 when i≠j. In particular, I0 is the unique empty matrix in M0(F).

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