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.
Bounded representatives for
Example
For the orbit bound reduces the search to the finite box Inside that box the solutions are
Thus every integral solution lies in one of the eight Pell orbits represented by
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The equation .
Every solution is Pell-equivalent to one in an explicit bounded rectangle (Generalized Pell solutions fall into finitely many Pell orbits).
The bounded-rectangle search decides solubility and produces orbit representatives (Generalized Pell solubility is decidable by bounded search).
Verification
The least positive norm-one solution for is , since and the smaller positive values give , neither a square. Substituting and into [F1] gives
By [F2], it is enough to enumerate solutions in that finite box. The integer solutions there are exactly and , because and no other pair with , satisfies the equation. To compare their Pell orbits, note that every nonzero power of has absolute value either at least or at most . But among the eight displayed solutions, every quotient of two distinct positive representatives has absolute value between and this interval lies strictly inside . So no ratio of two distinct displayed solutions is a power of , and negative ratios are impossible because every power of is positive. Therefore these eight boxed solutions represent eight distinct Pell orbits.
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Sources
- Keith Conrad, Pell's Equation, II (standard reference, not scraped)
- Peter Hackman, Elementary Number Theory (standard reference, not scraped)