DefinitionDefinition: Literature-sourcedProof: Not applicablejudge pass (deepseek-v4-pro + gpt-5.6-terra)audited 2026-08-13
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.
Characteristic subgroups
Definition
A subgroup is characteristic in , written , if for every automorphism (Group isomorphisms, automorphisms and the set , Subgroup).
Equivalently, every automorphism of restricts to an automorphism of . Characteristicity requires invariance under all automorphisms, not only under inner automorphisms.