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.
Abstract isometries can give a nonunitary comparison
Statement refuted
For every pair of isometries , the comparison is unitary.
Statement references
Facts & Assumptions
Given: and with their standard Hilbert norms, and the maps and .
Scattering isometries do not establish asymptotic completeness: for isometric maps from one asymptotic Hilbert space to a physical Hilbert space, the comparison is and its unitarity requires equal ranges.
Counterexample
For every , and in the standard first-variable-linear inner products, so both maps are isometries. Their ranges are and , respectively, and are distinct proper subspaces of .
The Hilbert adjoint is , since for all . Hence for every . The zero map is not unitary because it does not preserve the norm of and is not surjective. This refutes the universal claim: isometry alone need not give equal ranges or a unitary comparison. This abstract Hilbert-space example does not construct a QFT model or establish non-completeness in any particular physical theory.