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DefinitionDefinition: AI-adaptedProof: Not applicablePipeline-generatedjudge pass (gpt-5.6-terra)audited 2026-09-12
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.

Boolean algebras and their order

Definition

In ZF, a Boolean algebra is a set B with binary operations ∧,∨, a unary operation ¬, and elements 0,1, satisfying the bounded distributive lattice laws and

a∧¬a=0,a∨¬a=1(a∈B).

Explicitly, both binary operations are associative, commutative and idempotent; they satisfy absorption and both distributive laws; a∧1=a, a∨0=a, a∧0=0 and a∨1=1. Its order is a≤b if a∧b=a, equivalently a∨b=b.

The algebra is nonempty because its bounds are elements. We allow 0=1, in which case every a equals a∧1=a∧0=0. This one-element algebra is called trivial. Otherwise the algebra is nontrivial. The empty join is 0 and the empty meet is 1.

All Boolean homomorphisms in this development preserve both bounds, as well as the operations.

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Nothing. This result depends on no other item in the library.

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