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 two-point duplication property of a function family relative to a target function
Definition
Let be a topological space, let be a family of continuous real-valued functions (Continuity of a map of topological spaces at a point and globally, The vector space of all functions with pointwise operations, and as the case ), and let . The family has the two-point duplication property relative to when for every , including , there is such that
The equal-point clause matters on a one-point space. Erdman's distinct-point convention is equivalent to this one when contains every constant function, because the constant function with value supplies the witness when . Without constants, the distinct-point condition is vacuous on a singleton and does not imply approximation of an arbitrary target there.