ExampleConstruction: AI-adaptedVerification: AI-generatedprecheck passaudited 2026-08-30‡ rests on unproved material (inherited)

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.

‡ Rests on 3 statements not proved in this library, by way of the results it cites. This item cites no such statement directly; it depends on results that do. The unproved premises it inherits are ‡ Cohen's first model: an infinite Dedekind-finite set of reals, ‡ Sierpiński 1947: the generalised continuum hypothesis implies the Axiom of Choice and ‡ The continuum hypothesis and its generalisation are independent of ZFC. Each is recorded with a citation to the literature and is not established here, because the track that would prove it has not yet been developed in this library. Everything else in this proof is proved here.

A subcomplex and its quotient complex

Example

Let $C_{∙}$ be the two-term complex $0 \to Z \overset{\times 2}{\to} Z \to 0,$ and let $S_{∙}$ be the subcomplex with $S_{1} = 0$ and $S_{0} = 2 Z$ . Then the quotient complex $C / S$ is $0 \to Z \overset{0}{\to} Z / 2 Z \to 0.$

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The complexes $C_{∙}$ and $S_{∙}$ just displayed.

[L1]

A subcomplex is a degreewise subobject stable under the differentials (Subcomplex).

[L2]

A quotient complex is obtained by quotienting degreewise and descending the differential (Quotient complex).

[L3]

$A b$ is an abelian category (Modules over a ring form an abelian category).

Verification

technique · direct

1.1

The family $S_{∙}$ is a subcomplex: the only nontrivial check is that $d_{1} (S_{1}) = 0$ lands in $2 Z = S_{0}$ . Thus [L1] applies.

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2.1

By [L2], the quotient has terms $C_{1} / S_{1} ≅ Z$ and $C_{0} / S_{0} ≅ Z / 2 Z$ . The descended differential is zero because $2 x$ lies in $2 Z$ for every representative $x \in Z$ , so changing representatives does not change the class. Hence the quotient complex is as displayed.

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Depends on

Used by

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Dependency tree · two levels

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Sources

Charles A. Weibel, Chapter 1 of An Introduction to Homological Algebra (standard reference, not scraped)