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.
Rasiowa–Sikorski with its choice use exposed
Statement
In ZFC, given a nonempty forcing preorder P, a sequence of dense subsets and , a filter G contains p and meets every . If a surjection is supplied, the conclusion has a ZF proof without AC.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: General branch assumes AC for the omega cross P refinement family; supplied-enumeration branch is ZF. Explicit descending sequence and upward closure verify nonemptiness, direction and all dense-set meetings.
Dense open sets and generic filters over a model: Density supplies refinements; filters are upward closed and internally downward directed.
The Axiom of Choice: AC selects an element from each set in a set-indexed family of nonempty sets.
Transfinite recursion: The definable-rule recursion schema applies on omega and uses no Choice.
Proof
For , let . These sets are nonempty by density. AC selects ; this is the sole AC use. Recursively set and . Thus and .
Define . It contains p and is upward closed. If q,r have witnesses n,m, then strengthens both. Hence G is a filter and for every n.
If e is supplied, instead define h(n,q) as for the least k with and . Such k exists by density and surjectivity, and is unique by leastness. This rule and the recursion and verification above require only ZF.
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Used by
Dependency tree · two levels
8 results within two dependency steps of this one, each drawn at its shortest distance from it. An arrow runs from a result to what uses it, so the chart reads left to right and ends at this result, which carries a heavier outline. Every node is a link to that result. Click elsewhere on the chart to enlarge it.
Sources
- Karagila Theorem 1.14 and Corollary 1.15 p4; Marks Lemma 24.6 p99 (standard reference, not scraped)