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ExampleConstruction: AI-adaptedVerification: AI-generatedPipeline-generatedjudge pass (gpt-5.6-terra)
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,

L0=,L1={},L2={,{}},L3=P(L2).

For every n<ω, Ln=Vn, and therefore Lω=Vω.

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.

[F1]

The constructible hierarchy and constructible rank: The L hierarchy starts from empty, uses Def at successors, and takes unions at nonzero limits.

[F2]

The cumulative hierarchy: The V hierarchy starts from empty, uses power sets at successors, and takes unions at nonzero limits.

[F3]

Definable subsets of a membership structure: Def includes each subset definable with finitely many parameters and has the designated empty case.

Verification

1.1

For a finite set A every subset B is finite. If B={b1,,bk} is nonempty, the formula x=b1x=bk defines it over A using those parameters. The formula xx defines the empty subset when A is nonempty; the designated clause treats A empty. Hence Def(A)=P(A) for finite A.

F3
2.1

Starting with empty gives L1={} and L2={,{}}. The four elements of L3 are , {}, {{}} and {,{}}. Induction gives finiteness at each stage (a set with k elements has subsets encoded by k binary choices) and Ln+1=P(Ln)=P(Vn)=Vn+1. The zero stages coincide. Taking the unions over n yields Lω=Vω.

F1F2step 1.1

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