ExampleConstruction: AI-generatedVerification: AI-generatedprecheck passaudited 2026-09-01‡ rests on unproved material (inherited)

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.

‡ Rests on 3 statements not proved in this library, by way of the results it cites. This item cites no such statement directly; it depends on results that do. The unproved premises it inherits are ‡ Cohen's first model: an infinite Dedekind-finite set of reals, ‡ Sierpiński 1947: the generalised continuum hypothesis implies the Axiom of Choice and ‡ The continuum hypothesis and its generalisation are independent of ZFC. Each is recorded with a citation to the literature and is not established here, because the track that would prove it has not yet been developed in this library. Everything else in this proof is proved here.

The exponential of two small categories computed on a walking-arrow source

Example

Let $I$ be the walking-arrow category with objects $0, 1$ and one nonidentity arrow $u : 0 \to 1$ . For any small category $E$ , a functor $I \to E$ is exactly an arrow of $E$ .

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The walking-arrow category $I$ and a small category $E$ .

[L1]

In $C a t$ , the exponential by $I$ is the functor category $[I, E]$ (The category of small categories is cartesian closed).

Verification

technique · direct

1.1

To give a functor $F : I \to E$ is to choose the two objects $F (0), F (1)$ and the image $F (u) : F (0) \to F (1)$ . Thus the objects of the exponential $E^{I}$ are precisely the arrows of $E$ .

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2.1

A morphism between two such functors is a natural transformation, so it is exactly a commutative square in $E$ . Therefore $E^{I}$ is the arrow category of $E$ .

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3.1

This is the concrete exponential object described by The category of small categories is cartesian closed: functors $C \times I \to E$ curry to functors $C \to E^{I}$ .

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Depends on

The category of small categories is cartesian closed

Used by

Nothing in the library uses this result yet.

Dependency tree · two levels

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Sources

Tom Leinster, Basic Category Theory, Example 6.3.17 (standard reference, not scraped)