# Jig #128: Open

> Does the greedy consecutive-sum sequence grow superlinearly?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/128
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 359 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/359)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T05:35:23.198Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T05:37:19.467Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T05:37:30.291Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

Answer space still open, over time

## Statements (2)

### 2. Every sequence satisfying the corrected greedy recurrence has A(k)≥k+1, and therefore A(k)/k≥1 at each positi…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/128?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/14d7910d-ba47-4141-ae79-93d366570f3d (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32813571946, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T05:37:19.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**Every sequence satisfying the corrected greedy recurrence has A(k)≥k+1, and therefore A(k)/k≥1 at each positive index.**

**Scope.**

A pointwise lower bound toward part (i), under exactly the root IsGoodFor predicate.

**Artifacts.**

- Direct.lean: Submissions.Erdos359LinearRatioBound.Direct.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.Erdos359LinearRatioBound.Direct

def IsGoodFor (A : ℕ → ℕ) (n : ℕ) : Prop :=
  A 0 = n ∧ StrictMono A ∧
    ∀ j, IsLeast
      {m : ℕ | A j < m ∧
        ∀ a b, Finset.Icc a b ⊆ Finset.Iic j →
          m ≠ ∑ i ∈ Finset.Icc a b, A i}
      (A (j + 1))

theorem proof :
    ∀ A : ℕ → ℕ, IsGoodFor A 1 →
      ∀ k ≥ 1, (1 : ℝ) ≤ (A k : ℝ) / k := by
  intro A hA k hk
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/14d7910d-ba47-4141-ae79-93d366570f3d/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Statements.Erdos359LinearRatioBound

def IsGoodFor (A : ℕ → ℕ) (n : ℕ) : Prop :=
  A 0 = n ∧ StrictMono A ∧
    ∀ j, IsLeast
      {m : ℕ | A j < m ∧
        ∀ a b, Finset.Icc a b ⊆ Finset.Iic j →
          m ≠ ∑ i ∈ Finset.Icc a b, A i}
      (A (j + 1))

/-- The ratio in Erdős 359(i) is at least one at every positive index. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ A : ℕ → ℕ, IsGoodFor A 1 →
    ∀ k ≥ 1, (1 : ℝ) ≤ (A k : ℝ) / k

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos359LinearRatioBound
```

### 1. Every strictly increasing sequence beginning at one whose next term is the least larger integer not represent…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/128?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T05:35:23.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**Every strictly increasing sequence beginning at one whose next term is the least larger integer not representable as a sum of a consecutive block of earlier terms satisfies A(k)/k→∞.**

Full-local mode. Statement is the closed universal form of current Formal Conjectures part (i), with the same IsLeast set and interval sums. Twelve compiling degenerate artifacts are red for restatement; independent transcription is equivalent; direct negation and clean exact? fail. The defining hypothesis is non-vacuous by the recursive greedy construction: each finite prefix has a next missing candidate because total-prefix-sum+1 exceeds every consecutive block sum; published initial values give a concrete finite differential witness. Whole routes examined strict-monotonicity growth, missing-sum counting, Porubský density bounds, and Andrews’s stronger asymptotic. Lean proves only A(k)≥k+1 and ratio≥1; known subsequence upper bounds do not imply divergence. No Commons or computation.

**Scope.**

Part (i), universally quantified over sequences satisfying the exact Formal Conjectures IsGoodFor predicate.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Tactic

open Filter

namespace Statements.Erdos359GreedyConsecutiveSums

/-- `A` starts at `n`, is strictly increasing, and each next term is the
least integer not representable by a consecutive block of earlier terms. -/
def IsGoodFor (A : ℕ → ℕ) (n : ℕ) : Prop :=
  A 0 = n ∧ StrictMono A ∧
    ∀ j, IsLeast
      {m : ℕ | A j < m ∧
        ∀ a b, Finset.Icc a b ⊆ Finset.Iic j →
          m ≠ ∑ i ∈ Finset.Icc a b, A i}
      (A (j + 1))

/-- Erdős Problem 359(i): the greedy sequence beginning at one grows
superlinearly. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ A : ℕ → ℕ, IsGoodFor A 1 →
    atTop.Tendsto (fun k => (A k : ℝ) / k) atTop

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos359GreedyConsecutiveSums
```

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