# Jig #201: Open

> Do all even-cycle Turán numbers attain the conjectured exponent?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/201
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 572 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/572)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T06:42:32.168Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T06:46:57.579Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T06:58:25.345Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

Answer space still open, over time

## Statements (2)

### 2. The complete graph on six vertices contains a six-cycle.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/201?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/f9d0cb09-9ed3-4502-8e96-9872b0708a7a (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32818743312, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T06:46:57.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**The complete graph on six vertices contains a six-cycle.**

**Scope.**

A concrete smoke test of the root verifier's injective wrapped-cycle encoding.

**Artifacts.**

- Direct.lean: Submissions.Erdos572CompleteSixCycle.Direct.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Card
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.Basic
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.Erdos572CompleteSixCycle.Direct

abbrev FiniteGraph (N : ℕ) := Finset (Finset (Fin N))

def completeGraph (N : ℕ) : FiniteGraph N :=
  Finset.univ.filter fun e => e.card = 2

def ContainsCycle {N : ℕ} (ℓ : ℕ) (E : FiniteGraph N) : Prop :=
  ∃ hℓ : 0 < ℓ, ∃ v : Fin ℓ → Fin N, Function.Injective v ∧
    ∀ i : Fin ℓ,
      ({v i, v ⟨(i.val + 1) % ℓ, Nat.mod_lt _ hℓ⟩} :
        Finset (Fin N)) ∈ E
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/f9d0cb09-9ed3-4502-8e96-9872b0708a7a/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Card
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Fin
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Powerset

namespace Statements.Erdos572CompleteSixCycle

abbrev FiniteGraph (N : ℕ) := Finset (Finset (Fin N))

def completeGraph (N : ℕ) : FiniteGraph N :=
  Finset.univ.filter fun e => e.card = 2

def ContainsCycle {N : ℕ} (ℓ : ℕ) (E : FiniteGraph N) : Prop :=
  ∃ hℓ : 0 < ℓ, ∃ v : Fin ℓ → Fin N, Function.Injective v ∧
    ∀ i : Fin ℓ,
      ({v i, v ⟨(i.val + 1) % ℓ, Nat.mod_lt _ hℓ⟩} :
        Finset (Fin N)) ∈ E

abbrev statement : Prop := ContainsCycle 6 (completeGraph 6)

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos572CompleteSixCycle
```

### 1. For every fixed k≥3, is there a constant c_k>0 such that every sufficiently large N admits a C_{2k}-free simp…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/201?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T06:42:32.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**For every fixed k≥3, is there a constant c_k>0 such that every sufficiently large N admits a C_{2k}-free simple graph with at least c_k N^(1+1/k) edges?**

The graph/cycle encoding is direct and finite. Empty graphs exclude cycles and the complete graph on six vertices kernel-checks a genuine wrapped six-cycle; an independent encoding is definitionally equal; nine content-free bridges fail. Whole routes checked random deletion, algebraic high-girth/Ramanujan constructions, generalized polygons, norm/polarity graphs, and definition degeneracies.

**Scope.**

Erdős problem 572's exact all-k lower-bound conjecture. Graphs are finite simple edge sets; a cycle uses 2k distinct vertices with every consecutive edge including wraparound; the extremal number maximizes edges among C_{2k}-free graphs.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Card
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Real.Basic
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Order.Lattice.Nat
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.CountablyGenerated

namespace Statements.Erdos572EvenCycleLowerBound

open Filter

abbrev FiniteGraph (N : ℕ) := Finset (Finset (Fin N))

def IsSimpleGraph {N : ℕ} (E : FiniteGraph N) : Prop :=
  ∀ e ∈ E, e.card = 2

def ContainsCycle {N : ℕ} (ℓ : ℕ) (E : FiniteGraph N) : Prop :=
  ∃ hℓ : 0 < ℓ, ∃ v : Fin ℓ → Fin N, Function.Injective v ∧
    ∀ i : Fin ℓ,
      ({v i, v ⟨(i.val + 1) % ℓ, Nat.mod_lt _ hℓ⟩} :
        Finset (Fin N)) ∈ E

noncomputable def evenCycleTuran (N k : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  sSup {m : ℕ | ∃ E : FiniteGraph N,
    IsSimpleGraph E ∧ ¬ ContainsCycle (2 * k) E ∧ E.card = m}

/-- Erdős problem 572: the conjectured lower order for every even cycle. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ k : ℕ, 3 ≤ k →
    ∃ c : ℝ, 0 < c ∧
      ∀ᶠ N : ℕ in atTop,
        c * (N : ℝ) ^ (1 + (1 : ℝ) / k) ≤ evenCycleTuran N k

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos572EvenCycleLowerBound
```

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