DefinitionDefinition: Literature-sourcedProof: Not applicableaudited 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.

Star-shaped open subsets of Euclidean space

A nonempty open set $U \subseteq R^{n}$ is star-shaped with respect to $a \in U$ when

$a + t (x - a) \in U for every x \in U and 0 \leq t \leq 1.$

The point $a$ is a star centre. Every convex open set of A convex subset of $R^{m}$ contains every line segment between two of its points is star-shaped with respect to each of its points. The nonemptiness and the chosen centre are part of the definition.

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