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.
Classical real flux versus selected circle sector
Exact smooth two-form, fixed-normalization circle-patching, and flat-holonomy calculations on the specified punctured domains; no assertion of magnetic monopoles in nature or a quantum Aharonov–Bohm observation or charge-quantization rule.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The exact punctured-domain and flat-connection cases of Local potentials and explicit global obstruction in the model, with chosen measured in webers. The example values below are constructed model parameters, not observations.
Local potentials and explicit global obstruction in the model states that on has flux , no global potential when , and a fixed- north/south connection transition exactly when . It also states that on has zero curvature and holonomy .
Example
Use the oriented sphere field on the punctured spacetime of [F1]. For , its flux is and its transition map is . This map is single-valued on the equatorial circle and has winding number of absolute value one. For , the real field is still smooth and closed on the punctured domain, but is not an integer, so these north/south potentials do not define a connection with that fixed circle normalization. For , the field and the chosen connection can both be zero.
Separately, on , the normalized flat connection has holonomy . At this is , so the connection is not gauge trivial; at the single-valued map removes it. The distinction is a classical statement about connection data and does not use a quantum wavefunction.
Verification
For , the flux formula in [F1] gives , and the transition coefficient is , so returns to after a full turn. Its degree is for the stated north-to-south orientation, hence its absolute winding is one.
For , the normalized flux number is , which lies strictly between and and therefore is not an integer. The endpoint value is not , so this patch data do not define the selected circle connection; the real closed two-form itself remains admitted in the classical sector of [F1].
If , then , , the transition is the constant map , and the global potential exists. Thus the nonzero-flux obstruction in [F1] does not apply at this endpoint.
For the flat case , substituting into [F1] gives holonomy , which differs from the zero connection's holonomy and is invariant under single-valued gauge transformations. At , the holonomy is and is single-valued because ; its local lift changes the connection by , removing . Therefore zero curvature need not mean gauge triviality, while this integer flat connection is gauge trivial.