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 first constructible levels
Example
In ZF,
For every , , and therefore .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: ZF. Calculated the first four levels and explicitly defined every subset of a finite carrier; finite induction and the omega union give the promised V-level identities.
The constructible hierarchy and constructible rank: The L hierarchy starts from empty, uses Def at successors, and takes unions at nonzero limits.
The cumulative hierarchy: The V hierarchy starts from empty, uses power sets at successors, and takes unions at nonzero limits.
Definable subsets of a membership structure: Def includes each subset definable with finitely many parameters and has the designated empty case.
Verification
For a finite set A every subset B is finite. If is nonempty, the formula defines it over A using those parameters. The formula defines the empty subset when A is nonempty; the designated clause treats A empty. Hence for finite A.
Starting with empty gives and . The four elements of are , , and . Induction gives finiteness at each stage (a set with k elements has subsets encoded by k binary choices) and . The zero stages coincide. Taking the unions over n yields .
Depends on
Used by
Dependency tree · two levels
7 results within two dependency steps of this one, each drawn at its shortest distance from it. An arrow runs from a result to what uses it, so the chart reads left to right and ends at this result, which carries a heavier outline. Every node is a link to that result. Click elsewhere on the chart to enlarge it.
Sources
- Geschke Lemma 5.6(b) p15 (standard reference, not scraped)