Take and put , and . The first supplied substitution identity readsUse the supplied replacement of equivalents in the context . It givesBut is equivalent to . Replacement under a box gives , so is equivalent toReplacing equivalents once more transfers the fixed-point equation to , proving .
A direct check of this GL fixed point for a provability implication is useful: the Löb axiom gives , and necessitating the tautology gives by . Thus , and replacing the antecedent in recovers .