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 diagonal commutes with base change
Statement
For and , there is a canonical isomorphism Under this identification is the base change of . More explicitly, the square with horizontal arrows the two diagonals and vertical arrows to and is Cartesian.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The objects, hypotheses and conventions in the statement above.
For , the diagonal morphism is the unique satisfying . It exists by thm-fibre-products-of-schemes-exist. For any test scheme , it takes an -morphism to the compatible pair . (The diagonal morphism)
For and an -scheme , there is a canonical isomorphism It is functorial in and compatible with the induced maps of -schemes. (Iterated base change)
For -schemes there are natural projection-compatible isomorphisms Any coherence identity between these identifications holds whenever both sides induce the same ordered projections to the original factors. (Symmetry, associativity and units)
Proof
By F2 and F3, a map from any to either displayed product is exactly a triple with , and , where . Keeping these three projections constructs the isomorphism and its inverse.
By F1 the new diagonal sends to . In the pullback of the old diagonal a test triple is accompanied by satisfying . Thus it is exactly the same datum , with no additional choice. The projections give inverse morphisms, proving the Cartesian assertion. Empty schemes, identity base changes and nonreduced test schemes obey this same argument.