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.
for every integer
Statement
for every integer .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: An integer and the standard loop .
For every integer , define and (The standard circle loops for ).
For a based circle loop with its lift beginning at zero, define (The degree of a based circle loop).
Given a covering , a path , and above , there is a unique path with and (Existence and uniqueness of path lifts through a covering map).
Proof
The path starts at zero and projects to by [L1]. The uniqueness clause of [L3] therefore identifies it with the lift used to define the degree of .
Its terminal value is , so [L2] gives . This calculation is uniform for , positive , and negative .
Depends on
Used by
- A based circle loop is nullhomotopic exactly when its degree is zero Corollary
- ℝ/ℤ is not simply connected Corollary
- The trigonometric loops give π₁({(x,y):x²+y²=1},(1,0))≅ℤ Corollary
- Based circle loops with the same endpoints need not be path-homotopic Counterexample
- A loop that traverses the circle once and then pauses is homotopic to the standard loop Example
- The geometric loops t↦(cos 2π nt,sin 2π nt) have degree n Example
- Deg:π₁(ℝ/ℤ,[0])→(ℤ,+) is an isomorphism Theorem
Dependency tree · next 3 levels
Direct dependencies and their dependencies through the next three levels: 52 results over 14 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
- Allen Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, Ch. 1, Section 1.1 (standard reference, not scraped)
- J. Peter May, A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology, Ch. 1, Section 5 (standard reference, not scraped)