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.
A labelled tree and its Prüfer code computed in both directions
Statement
On labels , the tree with edges
has Prüfer code , and decoding this word returns the same tree.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The displayed labelled graph .
Encoding deletes the least leaf and records its neighbour (The Prüfer code of a tree on a finite set of natural labels).
The decoding procedure produces the inverse tree (The Prüfer decoding procedure is well defined and produces a labelled tree, Prüfer encoding and decoding are inverse bijections between labelled trees on vertices and words of length on their labels).
At each decoding stage, the least unused label absent from the remaining word is joined to its first symbol; the final two unused labels are then joined.
Verification
Initially the leaves are . Delete and record ; then delete and record ; then delete and record . Thus the code is .
To decode, the least label absent from is , so add ; for the suffix choose and add ; for choose and add .
The unused labels are then , so add . The recovered edge set is exactly .
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Used by
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Dependency tree · next 3 levels
Direct dependencies and their dependencies through the next three levels: 36 results over 22 levels. An arrow runs from a result to what uses it, and this result sits at the bottom with a heavier outline. Click the chart to enlarge it.
Sources
- ISI Bangalore discrete mathematics notes, Trees and Cayley’s theorem (standard reference, not scraped)