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.
Perfect sound and neutral perturbation modes
Explicit plane-wave and spatially constant solutions of the specified adiabatic perfect-material linear system; no claim that every mode decays, no nonlinear solution, and no empirical data.
Example
Under , use the perfect linear branch of Causal stable perfect-material linear response with , , and reference speed . For any nonzero wave vector in and real amplitude in Pa, define the dimensionless phase , where has units , and set
This is an exact sound mode of the adopted linear system. At zero wave vector, the separate constant fields and are also exact solutions for arbitrary constants in Pa and dimensionless. Every nonzero such choice is a neutral mode, so linear energy contraction does not mean that every perturbation decays. These are calculated model solutions, not observations.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The perfect-material linear equations and parameter conventions in Causal stable perfect-material linear response.
Assume as defined by The Axiom of Countable Choice (), because the cited theorem's global existence, contraction, and finite-propagation conclusions use that hypothesis.
Causal stable perfect-material linear response: under its stated hypotheses, including , the adopted equations are and , with , , and . This example uses its exact perfect-system equations and parameter conventions.
Verification
For , and , so . Also and . Substitution into the second equation gives a coefficient proportional to , which is zero by the definition of . Thus both first-order equations hold pointwise.
At , define and directly rather than using the nonzero-wave formula, whose denominator would vanish. Both spatial and time derivatives are zero, so each side of both equations is zero. Nonzero choices give persistent modes; under [A1] the theorem's contractive energy context therefore does not imply that every perturbation decays.