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.
Metric nonnegativity from the three axioms
Statement
For any real metric or pseudometric on a set in Real metric and pseudometric convention, for every . Thus these three-axiom definitions already have values in , including the vacuous assertion when .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The set and the finite real metric or pseudometric .
Real metric and pseudometric convention supplies reflexivity, symmetry, the triangle inequality and ordered-field arithmetic.
Proof
Fix . Reflexivity, the triangle inequality with endpoints , and symmetry give .
The real number is positive, so dividing the inequality in step 1.1 by yields . This proves the universally quantified claim; if is empty there are no pairs to check.