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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.

  • 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.

The same triple can accept for one machine and reject for another

Example

Take Q={s,A,R}, Σ={a}, Γ={a,}, with distinct states and a, and start s. Define the entire nonhalting transition by δ(s,a)=(A,a,R),δ(s,)=(A,,R). The movement tag R is distinct in notation from the state R. Machine M designates A as accepting and R as rejecting; machine N designates R as accepting and A as rejecting. Both use the same sets, blank, start, and transition function.

For tblank(i)= on all natural indices, the same triple C=(A,0,tblank) is accepting for M and rejecting for N.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The two raw tuples described above and the triple C.

[F1]

A raw tuple has three pairwise distinct designated states and a total transition on the complement of its two halting states. A configuration is a state/head/finite-support-tape triple; acceptance and rejection mean equality of its state to that machine's respective designated state (Initial tapes and machine-relative halting configurations).

Verification

1.1

Both machines remove the same set {A,R} from Q. Their nonhalting domain is therefore exactly {(s,a),(s,)}, and the two displayed entries provide a unique correctly typed output at each pair. In M the designated triple is (s,A,R), and in N it is (s,R,A); each has distinct entries. Their finite sets and blank exclusions are the same, so both tuples satisfy all the requirements.

givenF1
2.1

The blank tape has support {iN:}=. It is consequently a tape for both machines, and AQ and 0N make C a configuration of both. The shared state, head, and tape components require no change when the designations are interchanged.

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3.1

For M the accepting equality is A=qaccM=A, which is true, whereas the rejecting equality is A=qrejM=R, which is false. Thus C is accepting and not rejecting for M.

step 2.1givenF1
4.1

For N the rejecting equality is A=qrejN=A, which is true, whereas the accepting equality is A=qaccN=R, which is false. Thus C is rejecting and not accepting for N. It is halting for both machines, but the named outcome depends on the machine's designations, as asserted.

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Source

The original example instantiates the designated-state distinction in Watrous, Definition 12.1 and the following discussion, pp. 121–123. No reachability or run claim is part of the example.

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