DefinitionDefinition: Literature-sourcedProof: Not applicablePipeline-generatedaudited 2026-09-07
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.
Oriented smooth manifolds and oriented charts
Definition
An orientation of an -manifold is a smooth choice of a ray in for every . For , a chart is oriented when its coordinate frame is in that ray. For , the datum is a sign at each point; the unique empty frame does not encode both choices.