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.
Walks, paths, connectedness and components in a simple graph on an arbitrary vertex set
Definition
Let be a simple graph in the sense of Simple graphs on an arbitrary vertex set.
A walk, closed walk, trail, path, and cycle in are defined exactly as in Walks, closed walks, trails, paths and cycles, with length equal to the number of traversed edges, with no finiteness hypothesis on . In particular, a walk is a finite vertex list with for each , and a path is a walk with distinct vertices.
Vertices are connected when some path in has endpoints and . The graph is connected when and every two vertices of are connected.
For , the connected component of is the induced subgraph on
These are the same notions as in Connected graphs and connected components defined by the existence of vertex paths, again with the finiteness hypothesis removed.
Depends on
Used by
- Cycles, trees and forests in a simple graph on an arbitrary vertex set Definition
- The path metric of a connected simple graph Definition
- A bijection of vertex sets is an isometry for the path metrics if and only if it is a graph isomorphism Lemma
- A Cayley graph is connected if and only if the subset generates the group Lemma
- Every walk contains a path between the same endpoints, of no greater length Lemma
- In a connected locally finite graph every ball of the path metric is finite Lemma
- On a finite vertex set the graph notions agree, and on connected graphs the two path distances agree Lemma
- A nonempty simple graph is a tree if and only if each pair of vertices is joined by exactly one path Theorem
- The path metric of a connected simple graph is a metric on its vertex set Theorem
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Sources
- C. Loh, Geometric Group Theory: An Introduction (2015 course version), Section 3.1 (standard reference, not scraped)