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.
Presheaves and sheaves of groups, rings, and modules
Definition
Let be a topological space. Fix a ring when modules are under discussion.
A presheaf of groups on is a presheaf such that every is a group and every restriction map is a group homomorphism (Groups and group homomorphisms form the large locally small category ).
A presheaf of rings on is defined the same way with rings and ring homomorphisms (Unital rings and unit-preserving ring homomorphisms form the large locally small category ).
A presheaf of left -modules on is defined the same way with left -modules and -linear maps (Left modules over a fixed ring and module homomorphisms form the large locally small category ).
A sheaf of groups, sheaf of rings, or sheaf of left -modules is such a presheaf whose underlying set-valued presheaf is a sheaf.
In particular, each sheaf of groups has a distinguished identity section on every open set; in additive notation this section is written , and all restrictions preserve the algebraic operations.