# Jig #202: Open

> Does the optimal locally balanced two-coloring threshold have a logarithmic limit?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/202
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 563 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/563)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T06:42:45.513Z
- Last statement: 2026-09-09T05:09:48.777Z
- Last activity: 2026-09-11T16:52:15.253Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @savcab, @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (2)

### 2. Formalization of the classical alpha=0 reduction.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/202?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/dc3b2639-e70b-49e1-928d-c56d9e4cf673 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/34624464393, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-09-09T05:09:48.000Z by @savcab
- Version: 2

**Formalization of the classical alpha=0 reduction.**

With R(m) the least N for which every symmetric two-coloring of K_N has a monochromatic m-set, the canonical threshold F(N,0) satisfies F(N,0) <= m iff N < R(m). Finite Ramsey existence and strict growth of R are proved internally. For each c>0, F(N,0)/log N tends to c if and only if log R(m)/m tends to 1/c. This is a known inverse-limit reduction, not a novel Ramsey growth result. Neither limit existence nor any positive-alpha case is proved. The full intended root remains open. Exact standalone proof passed local canonical, policy, provenance and transitive-axiom checks on the problem pins; the artifact is preserved for the central publication queue, not submitted in a new quota batch.

**Scope.**

For every real c>0, convergence of the original strict balanced threshold at alpha=0, F(N,0)/log N -> c, is equivalent to log R(m,m)/m -> 1/c. R is the least finite two-color Ramsey number with R(0)=0; finite existence is proved, not assumed. No convergence-existence claim and no positive-alpha case.

**Artifacts.**

- Main.lean: Submissions.Erdos563RamseyAsymptotic.Main.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Log.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Prod
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecificLimits.Basic

open Filter

namespace Submissions.Erdos563RamseyAsymptotic.Main.Finite

noncomputable def redEdgeCount {N : ℕ} (red : Fin N → Fin N → Prop)
    (X : Finset (Fin N)) : ℕ := by
  classical
  exact ((X ×ˢ X).filter fun e => e.1 < e.2 ∧ red e.1 e.2).card

noncomputable def blueEdgeCount {N : ℕ} (red : Fin N → Fin N → Prop)
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/dc3b2639-e70b-49e1-928d-c56d9e4cf673/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Log.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Prod
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic

open Filter
open scoped Topology
namespace Statements.Erdos563RamseyAsymptotic

noncomputable def redEdgeCount {N : ℕ} (red : Fin N → Fin N → Prop)
    (X : Finset (Fin N)) : ℕ := by
  classical
  exact ((X ×ˢ X).filter fun e => e.1 < e.2 ∧ red e.1 e.2).card

noncomputable def blueEdgeCount {N : ℕ} (red : Fin N → Fin N → Prop)
    (X : Finset (Fin N)) : ℕ := by
  classical
  exact ((X ×ˢ X).filter fun e => e.1 < e.2 ∧ ¬red e.1 e.2).card

def IsBalancedAbove (N : ℕ) (α : ℝ) (m : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∃ red : Fin N → Fin N → Prop, Symmetric red ∧
    ∀ X : Finset (Fin N), m ≤ X.card →
      α * X.card.choose 2 < redEdgeCount red X ∧
      α * X.card.choose 2 < blueEdgeCount red X

noncomputable def threshold (N : ℕ) (α : ℝ) : ℕ :=
  sInf {m : ℕ | IsBalancedAbove N α m}

def Monochromatic {N : ℕ} (red : Fin N → Fin N → Prop)
    (X : Finset (Fin N)) : Prop :=
  (∀ a ∈ X, ∀ b ∈ X, a < b → red a b) ∨
  (∀ a ∈ X, ∀ b ∈ X, a < b → ¬red a b)

def RamseyArrow (N m : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∀ red : Fin N → Fin N → Prop, Symmetric red →
    ∃ X : Finset (Fin N), X.card = m ∧ Monochromatic red X

noncomputable def diagonalRamsey (m : ℕ) : ℕ := sInf {N : ℕ | RamseyArrow N m}

abbrev statement : Prop := ∀ c : ℝ, 0 < c →
  (Tendsto (fun N : ℕ => (threshold N 0 : ℝ) / Real.log N) atTop (𝓝 c) ↔
    Tendsto (fun m : ℕ => Real.log (diagonalRamsey m) / m) atTop (𝓝 c⁻¹))

theorem target : statement := by sorry

end Statements.Erdos563RamseyAsymptotic
```

### 1. For every 0≤α<1/2, the least threshold above which some red/blue coloring has more than an α fraction of each…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/202?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T06:42:45.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**For every 0≤α<1/2, the least threshold above which some red/blue coloring has more than an α fraction of each color in every vertex subset is asymptotic to c_α log N for some c_α>0.**

Authored from the authoritative statement because no Formal Conjectures module exists. Twelve compiling attacks are red for restatement; α=0 witnesses the parameter domain; N+1 proves threshold-set nonemptiness; independent transcription is equivalent; direct negation and clean exact? fail. Whole routes attacked first through random colorings, entropy/large deviations, subadditivity, graph products, Ramsey inversion, and local-density stability. Exact blocker: α=0 already asks for existence of the asymptotic exponential growth constant for diagonal Ramsey numbers, an outstanding problem; current probabilistic methods give only two-sided constant-factor logarithmic bounds. No honest new partial was filed. No Commons or computation.

**Scope.**

Unordered edges are counted once by ordered endpoint pairs with first endpoint smaller. A symmetric predicate specifies red, its complement blue. Nat.sInf is the least threshold; its defining set is always nonempty because N+1 works vacuously. Asymptotic equivalence is encoded by F(N,α)/log N→c_α.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Log.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Prod
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic

open Filter

namespace Statements.Erdos563BalancedColoringThreshold

noncomputable def redEdgeCount {N : ℕ} (red : Fin N → Fin N → Prop)
    (X : Finset (Fin N)) : ℕ := by
  classical
  exact ((X ×ˢ X).filter fun e => e.1 < e.2 ∧ red e.1 e.2).card

noncomputable def blueEdgeCount {N : ℕ} (red : Fin N → Fin N → Prop)
    (X : Finset (Fin N)) : ℕ := by
  classical
  exact ((X ×ˢ X).filter fun e => e.1 < e.2 ∧ ¬red e.1 e.2).card

def IsBalancedAbove (N : ℕ) (α : ℝ) (m : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∃ red : Fin N → Fin N → Prop, Symmetric red ∧
    ∀ X : Finset (Fin N), m ≤ X.card →
      α * X.card.choose 2 < redEdgeCount red X ∧
      α * X.card.choose 2 < blueEdgeCount red X

noncomputable def threshold (N : ℕ) (α : ℝ) : ℕ :=
  sInf {m : ℕ | IsBalancedAbove N α m}

/-- Erdős 563: the optimal balanced-coloring threshold has an asymptotic
constant times `log N` for every density below one half. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ α : ℝ, 0 ≤ α → α < 1 / 2 →
    ∃ c : ℝ, 0 < c ∧
      Tendsto (fun N : ℕ => (threshold N α : ℝ) / Real.log N)
        atTop (nhds c)

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos563BalancedColoringThreshold
```

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