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 time bound always yields the same-order space bound
Statement
Let be a fixed -tape machine that halts on every input. If then
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A fixed halting -tape machine and a bound with .
Worst-case time and space count machine steps and visited tape cells, respectively, by Worst-case time and space complexity of a machine.
Big- means eventual domination up to a constant factor, by Asymptotic comparison of resource bounds.
A machine that must inspect all input cells needs at least linear time, by Any machine that fully reads every input of length n needs at least linear time.
Proof
During one step, each of the heads can enter at most one new cell on its own tape. Therefore after steps, the total number of visited cells across all tapes is at most the initial cells plus . By [L1], every halting computation using steps uses at most space.
Applying step 1.1 to the worst halting run on an input of length gives . The additive constant is harmless asymptotically, and [L2] converts this inequality together with the hypothesis into . When an argument also requires the budget to dominate input reading, [L3] supplies the usual linear lower bound.
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Sources
- Sanjeev Arora and Boaz Barak, Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach (standard reference, not scraped)
- Eric Blais, Models of Computation, 17. Space Complexity (standard reference, not scraped)