# Jig #210: Open

> Does every sum-free real set admit a continuum-sized avoiding sumset?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/210
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 949 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/949)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T06:52:43.045Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T06:53:04.478Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T07:03:40.452Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (2)

### 2. Every forbidden subset of the reals of cardinality below the continuum admits a continuum-sized set A disjoin…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/210?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/c4a58aa1-97ae-4150-a227-bd35c12731ce (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32818962211, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T06:53:04.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**Every forbidden subset of the reals of cardinality below the continuum admits a continuum-sized set A disjoint from it whose sumset is also disjoint from it.**

**Scope.**

All real sets of cardinality strictly below continuum; no sum-free hypothesis needed.

**Artifacts.**

- Worker01.lean: Submissions.Erdos949SmallForbiddenSetCase.Worker01.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Algebra.Group.Pointwise.Set.Card
import Mathlib.Analysis.Real.Cardinality
import Mathlib.SetTheory.Cardinal.Continuum
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.Erdos949SmallForbiddenSetCase.Worker01

open Cardinal
open scoped Pointwise

theorem proof :
    ∀ S : Set ℝ, #S < 𝔠 →
      ∃ A ⊆ Sᶜ, #A = 𝔠 ∧ A + A ⊆ Sᶜ := by
  intro S hS𝔠
  obtain ⟨A, ⟨hAS, hAAS⟩, hAmax⟩ := by
    refine zorn_subset {A ⊆ Sᶜ | ∀ x ∈ A, ∀ y ∈ A, x + y ∉ S} ?_
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/c4a58aa1-97ae-4150-a227-bd35c12731ce/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Algebra.Group.Pointwise.Set.Card
import Mathlib.Analysis.Real.Cardinality
import Mathlib.SetTheory.Cardinal.Continuum

namespace Statements.Erdos949SmallForbiddenSetCase

open Cardinal
open scoped Pointwise

/-- The cardinal-small case of Erdős Problem 949 does not need sum-freeness:
every forbidden set smaller than the continuum admits a continuum-sized
avoiding set whose pairwise sums also avoid it. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ S : Set ℝ, #S < 𝔠 →
    ∃ A ⊆ Sᶜ, #A = 𝔠 ∧ A + A ⊆ Sᶜ

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos949SmallForbiddenSetCase
```

### 1. If S is a sum-free subset of the reals, must its complement contain a continuum-sized set A such that every s…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/210?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T06:52:43.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**If S is a sum-free subset of the reals, must its complement contain a continuum-sized set A such that every sum of two members of A also avoids S?**

The verifier is the right side of the Formal Conjectures equivalence verbatim: sum-free includes equal summands, A is contained in the complement, cardinality is exactly continuum, and the pointwise sumset A+A avoids S.

**Scope.**

Arbitrary subsets of the reals, without definability assumptions.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Algebra.Group.Pointwise.Set.Card
import Mathlib.Analysis.Real.Cardinality
import Mathlib.SetTheory.Cardinal.Continuum

namespace Statements.Erdos949LargeAvoidingSumset

open Cardinal
open scoped Pointwise

/-- Erdős Problem 949: every sum-free subset of the reals has a
continuum-sized subset of its complement whose pairwise sums also avoid it. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ S : Set ℝ, (∀ a ∈ S, ∀ b ∈ S, a + b ∉ S) →
    ∃ A ⊆ Sᶜ, #A = 𝔠 ∧ A + A ⊆ Sᶜ

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos949LargeAvoidingSumset
```

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