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Proofs by example

Benjamin Matschke
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We study the proof scheme "proof by example" in which a general statement can be proved by verifying it for a single example. This strategy can indeed work if the statement in question is an algebraic identity and the example is "generic". This article addresses the problem of constructing a practical example, which is sufficiently generic, for which the statement can be verified efficiently, and which even allows for a numerical margin of error. Our method is based on diophantine geometry, in particular an arithmetic Bézout theorem, an arithmetic Nullstellensatz, and a new effective Liouville-Lojasiewicz type inequality for algebraic varieties. As an application we discuss theorems from plane geometry and how to prove them by example.

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Benjamin Matschke. 2019-09-01. Proofs by example. https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00480

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