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.
Def(omega) is countable while P(omega) is not
Example
In ZF, has a surjective enumeration by , but no sequence lists every subset of . Consequently .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: ZF. Explicit triangular pairing and length-coded finite tuples enumerate Def(omega); a calculated diagonal subset differs from every enumerated value at its own index.
Definable subsets of a membership structure: Every Def subset of omega is decoded from a membership-formula code and a finite tuple of naturals.
Verification
Encode pairs of naturals by . For a given s, the values with are the consecutive integers from to , so these disjoint intervals cover omega and pi is a bijection. Number the membership-language symbols by naturals (the variables are , and the remaining logical and punctuation symbols form a fixed finite list); encode a finite symbol string by pairing its length with its nested symbol code ending in 0. Restricting this partial decoding to well-formed formulas and pairing each with its finite allowed arity gives a natural-number formula/arity code. Encode a finite tuple of naturals by the same length-and-nested-pair construction, then pair it with the formula/arity code. For each natural k decode a valid formula/tuple pair if possible and output its defined subset; otherwise output empty. Replacement gives a sequence , and F1 makes it surjective.
Given any sequence , Separation forms . For each k, membership of k in D is the opposite of its membership in S(k), so . Thus S is not surjective. Applied to E from step 1.1, D is not in Def(omega), although it is a subset of omega. This uses a defining formula in V, not necessarily a definition over the structure , so there is no contradiction with the definition of Def.
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Sources
- Geschke Lemma 5.1(4) specialized to canonically enumerated omega; local diagonal verification (standard reference, not scraped)