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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.

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Monomials on an index set as finitely supported exponent families

Definition

Let $I$ be a set. A monomial on $I$ is a function $a : I \to N$ (A function is a relation $f$ with $(a, b) \in f$ and $(a, c) \in f$ implying $b = c$ ; $f : A \to B$ , the value $f (a)$ , domain and codomain, The natural numbers $N$ (von Neumann)) whose support

$supp (a) : = {i \in I : a_{i} \neq 0}$

is finite in the sense of Finite, countably infinite, countable, uncountable. The set of all such exponent families is denoted $M (I)$ . The zero monomial is the constant-zero function, and the sum $a + b$ is defined pointwise using natural-number addition (Addition of natural numbers). It again has finite support because $supp (a + b) \subseteq supp (a) \cup supp (b)$ .

We write $x^{a}$ for the formal monomial indexed by $a$ . If $I = \emptyset$ , there is exactly one function $I \to N$ , so $M (I)$ consists only of the zero monomial.

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Sources

U. Thiel, Commutative Algebra, Section 1.4 (standard reference, not scraped)