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.
Null subsets of a smooth manifold
Definition
Let be a smooth -manifold, and let be a smooth atlas on . A subset is -null when, for every chart , the set
is null in the Euclidean sense of Measure zero and content zero in by countable and finite cube covers when , and is empty when . Equivalently, on a -manifold the only null subset is the empty set.
Under the Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()), the next proposition shows that this condition is independent of the chosen smooth atlas. Under that premise one may therefore speak simply of a null subset of .