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 Segre map is well defined and injective
Statement
The Segre point map is a well-defined injective map of point sets. This includes or .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Representatives and .
Proof
Replacing by replaces every coordinate by the single nonzero scalar times it. Some product is nonzero, so these coordinates define a well-defined projective point.
Choose with and . From a projective matrix in the image, the ratios recover , and recover .
Thus equal Segre images have equal two projective factors. The same calculation works when one factor has one homogeneous coordinate, proving the endpoint cases.