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LemmaStatement: AI-adaptedProof: AI-generatedPipeline-generatedjudge pass (gpt-5.6-terra)audited 2026-09-07
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.

Coincidence for term values and satisfaction

Statement

Assignments agreeing on FV(e) give equal denotations when e is a term and the same truth value when e is a formula. Also, passage to a reduct preserves denotations and satisfaction for expressions in the smaller signature. In particular sentence truth is independent of assignment; the truth of a formula can be specified by any tuple assigning all its free variables.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: Work in ZF unless the statement explicitly weakens or supplements it; fix the objects and hypotheses of the statement.

[F1]

For every set signature L and L-structure M there is a unique set SatMFormL×Mω. Writing M,sϕ for membership, its clauses are M,su=v    us=vs, M,sR(t1,,tn)    (t1s,,tns)RM, M,s¬ϕ    not M,sϕ, M,sϕψ    (M,sϕ and M,sψ), M,sxϕ    bM (M,s[x:=b]ϕ). The set is uniformly first-order definable from L and the structure data. (Existence and uniqueness of set satisfaction)

[F2]

An occurrence is a token position in the parsed finite word. A variable occurrence is free when it is in a term field and no ancestor quantifier binds that variable. The variable field of a quantifier is a binder, not a free occurrence. Write FV(e) for the finite set of variables with free occurrences in e, and Var(e) for all variables appearing anywhere. A sentence is a formula with empty FV. The recursive rules are FV(v)={v}, FV(c)=, union over the arguments for function and atomic relation/equality expressions, unchanged under negation, union for conjunction, and FV(yψ)=FV(ψ){y}. Structural recursion justifies these set-valued definitions, with targets P(ω) after identifying variables with their indices. Raw substitution e[t/x] replaces just the free occurrences of variable x by term t. On terms it replaces x by t, keeps other variables and constants, and acts on each argument. It commutes with atoms and Boolean constructors. At yψ it leaves the whole expression unchanged if y=x; otherwise it gives y(ψ[t/x]). The term t is free for x in e if, at every replaced occurrence, the path to the root crosses no binder for a member of FV(t). Thus at yψ with yx and xFV(ψ) it requires both yFV(t) and that t be free for x in ψ. If no free x occurs, the condition is vacuous. Simultaneous substitution replaces the original free occurrences once; it does not perform substitutions inside inserted terms. It need not equal sequential substitution. Conventions and prerequisites: thm-structural-recursion-on-set-coded-syntax. (Free variables and free-for substitution)

Proof

1.1

For terms, agreement at the variables gives the same leaf values, constants are fixed, and equal argument values give equal function values. This proves the term assertion by constructor induction and the free-variable union rule. Reducts have exactly the same relevant leaf interpretations and function operations.

F1F2
2.1

For equality and relation atoms use step 1.1; negation and conjunction preserve equality of truth values by their clauses. At xψ, if s,s agree on FV(ψ){x}, then for each bM their updates at x agree on FV(ψ). The induction hypothesis identifies truth for each witness in both directions.

F1F2step 1.1
3.1

Reducts have the same carrier, update assignments and witness range, so the identical atom, Boolean and existential argument proves reduct invariance. For a sentence the agreement condition is empty. A finite free-variable assignment extends to all variables by one fixed element of the nonempty carrier, and any two extensions agree on the free variables.

F1step 2.1

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