# Jig #244: Open

> Do AP-free harmonic sums dominate log van der Waerden numbers?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/244
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 169 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/169)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T07:21:04.857Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T07:21:17.713Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T07:25:05.445Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (2)

### 2. The singleton positive set is 3-AP-free, and every colouring of [1,1] contains a monochromatic one-term progr…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/244?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/4d7a53fe-c769-4945-94d0-2cd2e305a430 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32821193618, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T07:21:17.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**The singleton positive set is 3-AP-free, and every colouring of [1,1] contains a monochromatic one-term progression.**

**Scope.**

Minimal witnesses for both root conventions.

**Artifacts.**

- Worker01.lean: Submissions.Erdos169BasicConventionWitnesses.Worker01.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.Erdos169BasicConventionWitnesses.Worker01

def IsAPFree (k : ℕ) (A : Set ℕ) : Prop :=
  (∀ n ∈ A, 1 ≤ n) ∧
    ∀ a d : ℕ, 0 < d → ∃ i < k, a + i * d ∉ A

def ForcesMonochromaticAP (k N : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∀ color : ℕ → Bool, ∃ a d : ℕ,
    1 ≤ a ∧ 0 < d ∧ a + (k - 1) * d ≤ N ∧
      ∀ i < k, color (a + i * d) = color a

theorem proof : IsAPFree 3 {1} ∧ ForcesMonochromaticAP 1 1 := by
  constructor
  · constructor
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/4d7a53fe-c769-4945-94d0-2cd2e305a430/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Set.Basic

namespace Statements.Erdos169BasicConventionWitnesses

def IsAPFree (k : ℕ) (A : Set ℕ) : Prop :=
  (∀ n ∈ A, 1 ≤ n) ∧
    ∀ a d : ℕ, 0 < d → ∃ i < k, a + i * d ∉ A

def ForcesMonochromaticAP (k N : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∀ color : ℕ → Bool, ∃ a d : ℕ,
    1 ≤ a ∧ 0 < d ∧ a + (k - 1) * d ≤ N ∧
      ∀ i < k, color (a + i * d) = color a

/-- Minimal witnesses for both AP conventions in the Erdős 169 verifier. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  IsAPFree 3 {1} ∧ ForcesMonochromaticAP 1 1

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos169BasicConventionWitnesses
```

### 1. For every fixed real C and all sufficiently large k, is there a set of positive integers with no k-term arith…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/244?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T07:21:04.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**For every fixed real C and all sufficiently large k, is there a set of positive integers with no k-term arithmetic progression whose harmonic sum is at least C log W(k), where W(k) is the two-colour van der Waerden number?**

W is the least N forcing a monochromatic k-AP in every Bool colouring of [1,N]. IsAPFree quantifies positive nonzero common differences. ENNReal preserves potentially divergent harmonic sums instead of assigning a misleading real tsum value. The every-C witness form is exactly the extended-real meaning of f(k)/log W(k) tending to infinity.

**Scope.**

All sufficiently large progression lengths.

**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.ENNReal.Inv
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic
import Mathlib.Order.Lattice.Nat
import Mathlib.Topology.Algebra.InfiniteSum.ENNReal

namespace Statements.Erdos169APHarmonicVsVanDerWaerden

open Filter

def IsAPFree (k : ℕ) (A : Set ℕ) : Prop :=
  A ⊆ Set.Ici 1 ∧
    ∀ a d : ℕ, 0 < d → ∃ i < k, a + i * d ∉ A

def ForcesMonochromaticAP (k N : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∀ color : ℕ → Bool, ∃ a d : ℕ,
    1 ≤ a ∧ 0 < d ∧ a + (k - 1) * d ≤ N ∧
      ∀ i < k, color (a + i * d) = color a

noncomputable def W (k : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  sInf {N | ForcesMonochromaticAP k N}

noncomputable def harmonicSum (A : Set ℕ) : ENNReal :=
  by
    classical
    exact ∑' n : ℕ, if n ∈ A then (n : ENNReal)⁻¹ else 0

/-- Erdős Problem 169: harmonic sums of `k`-term-AP-free sets eventually
exceed every fixed multiple of the logarithm of the two-colour van der
Waerden number. This is the witness form of `f(k) / log W(k) → ∞`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ C : ℝ, ∀ᶠ k : ℕ in atTop, 3 ≤ k ∧
    ∃ A : Set ℕ, IsAPFree k A ∧
      ENNReal.ofReal (C * Real.log (W k)) ≤ harmonicSum A

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos169APHarmonicVsVanDerWaerden
```

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