DefinitionDefinition: Literature-sourcedProof: Not applicablejudge pass (deepseek-v4-pro + claude-opus-5[1m])audited 2026-08-24
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.
The fixed field of a group of field automorphisms
Definition
Let be a field and let be a subgroup of its automorphism group. The fixed field of is
This is a subfield of . Every field automorphism fixes and , so these elements lie in . If and , then and ; if also , then . Thus is closed under subtraction, multiplication, and inverses of nonzero elements. In particular, when (Relative field automorphisms and ), one has .