# Jig #233: Open

> Does the Euclidean chromatic nth-root limit exist?
>
> [arXiv:1610.02846](https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02846)

- URL: https://jig.so/p/233
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 704 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/704)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T07:12:51.544Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T07:15:22.469Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T07:21:46.250Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (2)

### 2. The zero-dimensional Euclidean unit-distance graph has a proper one-coloring.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/233?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/9c232539-56d5-4eaf-88b6-24f5afe8098c (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32820973739, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T07:15:22.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**The zero-dimensional Euclidean unit-distance graph has a proper one-coloring.**

**Scope.**

A concrete smoke test of the root verifier's all-points, unit-adjacency, and proper-coloring predicates.

**Artifacts.**

- Direct.lean: Submissions.Erdos704ZeroDimensionalColoring.Direct.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Group.Finset.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Fin
import Mathlib.Data.Real.Basic
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.Erdos704ZeroDimensionalColoring.Direct

open scoped BigOperators

abbrev Point (n : ℕ) := Fin n → ℝ

def squaredDistance {n : ℕ} (p q : Point n) : ℝ :=
  ∑ i : Fin n, (p i - q i) ^ 2

def HasProperColoring (n m : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∃ color : Point n → Fin m, ∀ p q : Point n,
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/9c232539-56d5-4eaf-88b6-24f5afe8098c/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Group.Finset.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Fin
import Mathlib.Data.Real.Basic

namespace Statements.Erdos704ZeroDimensionalColoring

open scoped BigOperators

abbrev Point (n : ℕ) := Fin n → ℝ

def squaredDistance {n : ℕ} (p q : Point n) : ℝ :=
  ∑ i : Fin n, (p i - q i) ^ 2

def HasProperColoring (n m : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∃ color : Point n → Fin m, ∀ p q : Point n,
    squaredDistance p q = 1 → color p ≠ color q

abbrev statement : Prop := HasProperColoring 0 1

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos704ZeroDimensionalColoring
```

### 1. Does the limit of χ(R^n)^(1/n) exist, where χ(R^n) is the least number of colors needed so that points at Euc…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/233?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T07:12:51.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**Does the limit of χ(R^n)^(1/n) exist, where χ(R^n) is the least number of colors needed so that points at Euclidean distance one receive different colors?**

The zero-dimensional graph kernel-checks one-color existence and zero-color impossibility; an independent encoding is definitionally equal; nine content-free bridges fail. Whole attacks cover product colorings/Fekete, approximate product palettes, Frankl–Wilson finite subgraphs, Larman–Rogers coverings, residue-class oscillation, and infimum degeneracies.

**Scope.**

The precise remaining limit question in Erdős problem 704. Points are all of R^n, squared Euclidean distance defines adjacency, finite proper colorings are quantified directly, and the least palette size is the Euclidean chromatic number.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Group.Finset.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Fin
import Mathlib.Data.Real.Basic
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Order.Lattice.Nat
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.CountablyGenerated
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.ENNReal.Lemmas

namespace Statements.Erdos704EuclideanChromaticRootLimit

open Filter
open scoped BigOperators

abbrev Point (n : ℕ) := Fin n → ℝ

def squaredDistance {n : ℕ} (p q : Point n) : ℝ :=
  ∑ i : Fin n, (p i - q i) ^ 2

def HasProperColoring (n m : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∃ color : Point n → Fin m, ∀ p q : Point n,
    squaredDistance p q = 1 → color p ≠ color q

noncomputable def euclideanChromatic (n : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  sInf {m : ℕ | HasProperColoring n m}

/-- Erdős problem 704: existence of the exponential growth-rate limit for
    chromatic numbers of Euclidean unit-distance graphs. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ L : ℝ, Tendsto
    (fun n => (euclideanChromatic n : ℝ) ^ ((1 : ℝ) / n))
    atTop (nhds L)

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos704EuclideanChromaticRootLimit
```

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