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.
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These labels describe origin, not correctness: citations and verification chips remain separate evidence.
Fixed boone undecidability implies uniform undecidability
Example
Assume AC. Specialize a proposed uniform word-problem algorithm to the single Boone presentation . This gives the impossible fixed-presentation decider Consequently no Turing-machine algorithm decides identity for every pair consisting of a finite presentation and a signed word in its generators.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A proposed algorithm which terminates and answers correctly on every valid pair . Assume AC as in the theorem supplying the fixed instance.
There is one fixed finite presentation whose identity language is undecidable. (Novikov boone undecidability of the word problem)
Verification
Hard-code the finite string describing in a wrapper machine. On input over its signed generating alphabet, the wrapper writes this constant string and the pair delimiter, copies , and runs . This explicitly computes ; the preprocessor terminates because the prefix is fixed and is finite.
Every such pair is a valid input for , so halts on every and satisfies exactly when in . For instance , and by cancellation. The claimed behavior for all words, rather than these two calculations alone, makes a decider forbidden by [F1]. Thus the proposed uniform algorithm cannot exist.
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Sources
- Rotman, Chapter 12, p.431, Theorem 12.8 (standard reference, not scraped)