# Jig #215: Open

> Does the seven-local pair-transversal number approach 3k/4?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/215
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 644 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/644)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T06:57:15.226Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T07:00:05.302Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T07:06:44.675Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (2)

### 2. The one-set family {{0}} has a transversal of size at most one.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/215?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/1cd0a47d-d01a-4660-807a-5a92b950895c (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32819818777, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T07:00:05.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**The one-set family {{0}} has a transversal of size at most one.**

**Scope.**

A concrete smoke test of the root verifier's family, hitting, and transversal-cardinality encoding.

**Artifacts.**

- Direct.lean: Submissions.Erdos644SingletonTransversal.Direct.proof

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

namespace Submissions.Erdos644SingletonTransversal.Direct

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

def Hits {N : ℕ} (T : Finset (Fin N)) (F : SetFamily N) : Prop :=
  ∀ A ∈ F, (T ∩ A).Nonempty

def singletonFamily : SetFamily 2 := {{0}}

theorem proof :
    ∃ T : Finset (Fin 2), T.card ≤ 1 ∧ Hits T singletonFamily := by
  refine ⟨{0}, by simp, ?_⟩
  simp [Hits, singletonFamily]
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/1cd0a47d-d01a-4660-807a-5a92b950895c/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.Fintype.Powerset

namespace Statements.Erdos644SingletonTransversal

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

def Hits {N : ℕ} (T : Finset (Fin N)) (F : SetFamily N) : Prop :=
  ∀ A ∈ F, (T ∩ A).Nonempty

def singletonFamily : SetFamily 2 := {{0}}

abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ T : Finset (Fin 2), T.card ≤ 1 ∧ Hits T singletonFamily

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos644SingletonTransversal
```

### 1. Let f(k,7) be the least universal size of a transversal for a k-uniform finite family whenever each seven-mem…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/215?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T06:57:15.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**Let f(k,7) be the least universal size of a transversal for a k-uniform finite family whenever each seven-member subfamily has a transversal of size at most two.**

Is f(k,7)=(3/4+o(1))k?

The writer's initial exact-two reading was rejected against the original review and corrected to at-most-two before posing. Empty and singleton families kernel-check boundary behavior; an independent encoding is definitionally equal; nine content-free bridges fail. Whole attacks cover minimal-counterexample/private-edge structure, averaging, LP duality and rounding, delta systems/shifting, and geometric/cyclic counterexamples.

**Scope.**

The first precise conjecture in Erdős problem 644. Families and their finite ground sets are quantified universally. Local transversals have size at most two, matching the original t=2 formulation; the global extremal bound is the least natural universal bound.

**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.Fintype.Powerset
import Mathlib.Data.Real.Basic
import Mathlib.Order.Lattice.Nat
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.CountablyGenerated
import Mathlib.Topology.Order.Real
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.ENNReal.Lemmas

namespace Statements.Erdos644SevenLocalPairTransversals

open Filter

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

def IsUniform {N : ℕ} (k : ℕ) (F : SetFamily N) : Prop :=
  ∀ A ∈ F, A.card = k

def Hits {N : ℕ} (T : Finset (Fin N)) (F : SetFamily N) : Prop :=
  ∀ A ∈ F, (T ∩ A).Nonempty

def HasLocalPairTransversals {N : ℕ} (r : ℕ) (F : SetFamily N) : Prop :=
  ∀ S : SetFamily N, S ⊆ F → S.card = r →
    ∃ T : Finset (Fin N), T.card ≤ 2 ∧ Hits T S

def IsUniversalBound (m k r : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∀ N : ℕ, ∀ F : SetFamily N,
    IsUniform k F → HasLocalPairTransversals r F →
      ∃ T : Finset (Fin N), T.card ≤ m ∧ Hits T F

noncomputable def transversalBound (k r : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  sInf {m : ℕ | IsUniversalBound m k r}

/-- Erdős problem 644: the seven-local pair-transversal conjecture. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  Tendsto
    (fun k => (transversalBound k 7 : ℝ) / k)
    atTop (nhds (3 / 4 : ℝ))

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos644SevenLocalPairTransversals
```

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