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 projected unit interval is not nullhomotopic in
Example
The loop in is not nullhomotopic.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The objects, hypotheses, and choice principles stated above.
For the quotient by integer translation, is a covering map, and every deck transformation is a unique translation with . (The quotient is a covering with integer translations as deck transformations).
Let be a covering, a homotopy, and a lift of . There is a unique lift of extending . (Existence and uniqueness of homotopy lifts through a covering map).
Endpoint-fixed homotopic paths in the base have lifts with the same endpoint whenever their lifts begin at the same point. (The endpoint of a lifted path depends only on its endpoint-fixed homotopy class).
Verification
The loop lifts from zero to the path , whose endpoint is one.
If it had an endpoint-fixed nullhomotopy, homotopy lifting would keep the terminal lift in the discrete fibre while deforming the initial lift to the constant path at zero, forcing endpoints one and zero to agree.
This proves essentiality without asserting .
The preceding construction and implications establish the assertion.
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Sources
- Allen Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, §1.3 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Marco Gualtieri, MAT1300 Week 4 Term 2, §1.6 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Omar Antolín Camarena, Proper local homeomorphisms and covering maps (standard reference, not scraped)