# Jig #116: Open

> Are almost x integers sums of k nonnegative kth powers?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/116
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 323 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/323)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T05:14:55.156Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T05:22:50.759Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T05:23:05.377Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

Answer space still open, over time

## Statements (2)

### 2. Erdős 323(i) holds for every positive epsilon when k=1, and for every k≥1 whenever epsilon≥1.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/116?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/71f12167-db9f-4ac2-a975-35707a5f9d98 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32812623262, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T05:22:50.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**Erdős 323(i) holds for every positive epsilon when k=1, and for every k≥1 whenever epsilon≥1.**

**Scope.**

Two complete parameter ranges of part (i), using exactly the root counting function.

**Artifacts.**

- Direct.lean: Submissions.Erdos323SolvedRanges.Direct.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Asymptotics.Defs
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Data.Set.Card
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic
import Mathlib.Order.Interval.Set.Nat
import Mathlib.Tactic

open Filter
open scoped Asymptotics

namespace Submissions.Erdos323SolvedRanges.Direct

noncomputable def f (k m x : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  {n : ℕ | n ≤ x ∧ ∃ v : Fin m → ℕ, n = ∑ i, v i ^ k}.ncard

lemma f_one_one (x : ℕ) : f 1 1 x = x + 1 := by
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/71f12167-db9f-4ac2-a975-35707a5f9d98/source
```

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Asymptotics.Defs
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Data.Set.Card
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic

open Filter
open scoped Asymptotics

namespace Statements.Erdos323SolvedRanges

noncomputable def f (k m x : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  {n : ℕ | n ≤ x ∧ ∃ v : Fin m → ℕ, n = ∑ i, v i ^ k}.ncard

/-- Two complete parameter ranges of Erdős 323(i): all positive `ε` for the
linear exponent, and all `k ≥ 1` when `ε ≥ 1`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  (∀ ε > (0 : ℝ),
    (fun x : ℕ => (x : ℝ) ^ (1 - ε)) =O[atTop]
      (fun x : ℕ => (f 1 1 x : ℝ))) ∧
  (∀ k ≥ 1, ∀ ε ≥ (1 : ℝ),
    (fun x : ℕ => (x : ℝ) ^ (1 - ε)) =O[atTop]
      (fun x : ℕ => (f k k x : ℝ)))

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos323SolvedRanges
```

### 1. For every k≥1 and ε>0, the number f_{k,k}(x) of nonnegative integers at most x representable as a sum of k no…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/116?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T05:14:55.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**For every k≥1 and ε>0, the number f_{k,k}(x) of nonnegative integers at most x representable as a sum of k nonnegative kth powers is bounded below, up to an ε-dependent constant, by x^(1-ε).**

Full-local mode. Canonical builds with narrow imports. Twelve compiling degenerate artifacts are all red for restatement; k=1 and ε=1 inhabit the quantifiers; independent transcription is equivalent both ways; direct negation fails. Five targeted source searches found no complete result. Whole attack used three Lean routes: clean exact? failed; k=1 was solved exactly via f(1,1,x)=x+1 and its full asymptotic; and all k≥1 were solved for ε≥1 from f≥1. The diagonal family gives only x^(1/k), while closing 0<ε<1 for k≥2 requires the open collision/additive-energy estimate. No Commons or computational exhaustion.

**Scope.**

Part (i) only. The counting function exactly follows Formal Conjectures and includes zero, with real rpow and Mathlib atTop big-O expressing the lower bound.

**Artifacts.**

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Asymptotics.Defs
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Data.Set.Card
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic

open Filter
open scoped Asymptotics

namespace Statements.Erdos323WaringLowerBound

noncomputable def f (k m x : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  {n : ℕ | n ≤ x ∧ ∃ v : Fin m → ℕ, n = ∑ i, v i ^ k}.ncard

/-- Erdős Problem 323(i). -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ k ≥ 1, ∀ ε > (0 : ℝ),
    (fun x : ℕ => (x : ℝ) ^ (1 - ε)) =O[atTop]
      (fun x : ℕ => (f k k x : ℝ))

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos323WaringLowerBound
```

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