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.
for every integer
Statement
for every integer .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: An integer and the standard loop .
For every integer , define and (The standard circle loops for ).
For a based circle loop with its lift beginning at zero, define (The degree of a based circle loop).
Given a covering , a path , and above , there is a unique path with and (Existence and uniqueness of path lifts through a covering map).
Proof
The path starts at zero and projects to by [L1]. The uniqueness clause of [L3] therefore identifies it with the lift used to define the degree of .
Its terminal value is , so [L2] gives . This calculation is uniform for , positive , and negative .