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.
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Example
Powers are the natural powers of Powers : natural exponents in a monoid and integer exponents in a group, with in the commutative monoid of is a commutative monoid whose group of units is ; equivalently holds exactly for and . For the symbol inside means , the embedding of The naturals embed in the integers.
Reading these against the injective list of primes , which contains every prime divisor of both numbers, For and any injective list of primes containing every prime divisor of , one has ; the exponents are determined by , and for every prime outside the list identifies the exponents as valuations (The -adic valuation of a nonzero integer: the greatest with ):
By For positive integers and and every prime : and ; so the exponent-wise greatest common divisor is the of the divisibility page and not a second notion the minimum row is the valuation vector of and the maximum row that of , so
Two independent checks are carried out below: the Euclidean algorithm of The Euclidean algorithm: for and the remainder descent from terminates, and the last nonzero remainder is returns from the descent , , ; and , as Every common multiple of and is a multiple of , and requires.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The integers , , and , and the primes , , , .
is a commutative ring: multiplication is associative and commutative, , and multiplication distributes over addition (The integers form a commutative ring, Arithmetic on the integers, The integers as equivalence classes of pairs of naturals); its order is total, antisymmetric and transitive (The integers form a totally ordered ring, Order on the integers, The naturals embed in the integers).
and in ; and (Powers : natural exponents in a monoid and integer exponents in a group, with , Exponent laws in a group: and for all , and when and commute, Semigroup and monoid, is a commutative monoid whose group of units is ; equivalently holds exactly for and , The product of a finite list in a monoid, by recursion, with the empty product () equal to the identity).
For and an injective list of primes containing every prime divisor of : , the exponents are determined by , and for a prime off the list (For and any injective list of primes containing every prime divisor of , one has ; the exponents are determined by , and for every prime outside the list, The fundamental theorem of arithmetic: every integer is a product of primes, and the factorisation is unique up to order — if with every and prime, then and for some , Every integer is a finite product of primes: there are and a list of primes with , the case being the empty product, The -adic valuation of a nonzero integer: the greatest with , For a prime and a nonzero integer : and ; holds exactly for ; exactly when ; ; and , for nonzero integers , and whenever , and are all nonzero).
For positive and every prime : and ; and a positive integer with those valuations is the , respectively the (For positive integers and and every prime : and ; so the exponent-wise greatest common divisor is the of the divisibility page and not a second notion, Common divisor, and the greatest common divisor , with the convention , Common multiple, and the least common multiple , taken to be when or , Every common divisor of and divides ; consequently exactly when , , , and every common divisor of and divides — a characterisation that holds at as well).
For and there is exactly one pair with and , and exactly when (Division with remainder in : for and there are unique with and , Divisibility in : when for some integer , Divisibility is reflexive and transitive on , and is linear: if and then for all integers ; also implies , and ).
The remainder descent from with terminates and its last nonzero remainder is (The Euclidean algorithm: for and the remainder descent from terminates, and the last nonzero remainder is ).
If is prime and then or (Euclid's lemma: if is prime and then or ).
An integer is prime when and its only positive divisors are and (Prime and composite integers: is prime when and its only positive divisors are and ); and a divisor of a nonzero satisfies (If and then and ; hence the set of divisors of a nonzero integer is bounded above by ).
Verification
The two products are correct: , , and with ; likewise , and .
, , and are prime, and they are pairwise distinct. Each exceeds ; and a positive divisor of such a number satisfies by [L8], so the candidates are the finitely many integers in that range, and each is settled by its remainder under [L5]: has only and as candidates; for the extra candidate gives ; for the extra candidates give remainders , , ; and for the extra candidates give remainders , , , , . In each case no divisor other than and the number itself survives.
The list is injective and consists of primes, and it contains every prime divisor of and of . Injectivity and primality are step 1.2. For the covering: if is prime and , repeated use of [L9] gives , or , and being a positive divisor of a prime with forces to be that prime; likewise forces .
By [L3] applied to with this list, the exponents in step 1.1 are the valuations: , , , .
By [L3] applied to : , , , .
Taking minima entrywise gives , and ; by [L3] the valuations of against this list are exactly those exponents, so has the valuation vector of and therefore equals it by [L4].
Taking maxima entrywise gives , and ; the same argument gives .
First check, the Euclidean algorithm. and with ; and with ; and with . By the uniqueness in [L5] these are the divisions of the descent, whose last nonzero remainder is , so by [L6], agreeing with step 4.1.
Second check, the product formula. and , and so ; this is [L7], agreeing with steps 4.1 and 4.2.
The factorisations, the valuation table, and both values of and are verified, and the two independent checks agree.
Remarks
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The cross-check is the point of the example. The Euclidean algorithm: for and the remainder descent from terminates, and the last nonzero remainder is computes without ever mentioning a prime, and the exponent recipe computes it without ever performing a division; they return the same integer because For positive integers and and every prime : and ; so the exponent-wise greatest common divisor is the of the divisibility page and not a second notion proves the recipe identifies the of Common divisor, and the greatest common divisor , with the convention rather than defining a rival.
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Which method is practical is a separate question. Factoring and is easy because they are small; for large integers the Euclidean algorithm is the only one of the two that runs, since no factorisation is needed. Nothing here claims anything about the cost of either procedure.
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The exponent columns matter. and are what make the same list serve both numbers, and clause 2 of For and any injective list of primes containing every prime divisor of , one has ; the exponents are determined by , and for every prime outside the list is the statement that every prime off the list contributes as well.
Depends on
For positive integers and and every prime : and ; so the exponent-wise greatest common divisor is the of the divisibility page and not a second notion
For and any injective list of primes containing every prime divisor of , one has ; the exponents are determined by , and for every prime outside the list
for nonzero integers , and whenever , and are all nonzero
For a prime and a nonzero integer : and ; holds exactly for ; exactly when ; ; and
The -adic valuation of a nonzero integer: the greatest with
The fundamental theorem of arithmetic: every integer is a product of primes, and the factorisation is unique up to order — if with every and prime, then and for some
Every integer is a finite product of primes: there are and a list of primes with , the case being the empty product
Prime and composite integers: is prime when and its only positive divisors are and
The Euclidean algorithm: for and the remainder descent from terminates, and the last nonzero remainder is
Every common multiple of and is a multiple of , and
Common multiple, and the least common multiple , taken to be when or
Common divisor, and the greatest common divisor , with the convention
Every common divisor of and divides ; consequently exactly when , , , and every common divisor of and divides — a characterisation that holds at as well
Division with remainder in : for and there are unique with and
Divisibility in : when for some integer
Divisibility is reflexive and transitive on , and is linear: if and then for all integers ; also implies , and
If and then and ; hence the set of divisors of a nonzero integer is bounded above by
Euclid's lemma: if is prime and then or
Powers : natural exponents in a monoid and integer exponents in a group, with
Exponent laws in a group: and for all , and when and commute
is a commutative monoid whose group of units is ; equivalently holds exactly for and
Semigroup and monoid
The product of a finite list in a monoid, by recursion, with the empty product () equal to the identity
The integers form a commutative ring
The integers form a totally ordered ring
Arithmetic on the integers
Order on the integers
The integers as equivalence classes of pairs of naturals
The naturals embed in the integers