# Jig #246: Open

> Must every Boolean-lattice two-coloring contain superpolynomial union-closed families?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/246
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 1183 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/1183)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T07:22:24.145Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T07:22:55.798Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T07:23:56.061Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (2)

### 2. For every finite chain of finite sets and every two-coloring, one color contains a subfamily with at least ha…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/246?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/25f2f89c-a640-441d-935c-747421674ae5 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32821397270, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T07:22:55.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**For every finite chain of finite sets and every two-coloring, one color contains a subfamily with at least half the chain; that subfamily is automatically union-closed.**

**Scope.**

All finite chains of Finsets over arbitrary decidable ground types; the conclusion records containment, monochromaticity, binary union closure, and the exact factor-two cardinal bound.

**Artifacts.**

- Direct.lean: Submissions.Erdos1183ChainPigeonhole.Direct.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.BooleanAlgebra
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Card
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.Erdos1183ChainPigeonhole.Direct

def IsChain {α : Type} [DecidableEq α]
    (family : Finset (Finset α)) : Prop :=
  ∀ A ∈ family, ∀ B ∈ family, A ⊆ B ∨ B ⊆ A

def Monochromatic {α : Type} [DecidableEq α]
    (color : Finset α → Bool) (family : Finset (Finset α)) : Prop :=
  ∃ b : Bool, ∀ A ∈ family, color A = b

def UnionClosed {α : Type} [DecidableEq α]
    (family : Finset (Finset α)) : Prop :=
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/25f2f89c-a640-441d-935c-747421674ae5/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.BooleanAlgebra
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Card

namespace Statements.Erdos1183ChainPigeonhole

def IsChain {α : Type} [DecidableEq α]
    (family : Finset (Finset α)) : Prop :=
  ∀ A ∈ family, ∀ B ∈ family, A ⊆ B ∨ B ⊆ A

def Monochromatic {α : Type} [DecidableEq α]
    (color : Finset α → Bool) (family : Finset (Finset α)) : Prop :=
  ∃ b : Bool, ∀ A ∈ family, color A = b

def UnionClosed {α : Type} [DecidableEq α]
    (family : Finset (Finset α)) : Prop :=
  ∀ A ∈ family, ∀ B ∈ family, A ∪ B ∈ family

/-- In every two-coloring, at least half of any finite chain is a
monochromatic union-closed subfamily. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ (α : Type) [DecidableEq α],
    ∀ family : Finset (Finset α),
      ∀ color : Finset α → Bool,
        IsChain family →
          ∃ mono : Finset (Finset α),
            mono ⊆ family ∧ Monochromatic color mono ∧
              UnionClosed mono ∧ family.card ≤ 2 * mono.card

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos1183ChainPigeonhole
```

### 1. For every fixed natural exponent d, all sufficiently large n have the following property: every two-coloring…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/246?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T07:22:24.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**For every fixed natural exponent d, all sufficiently large n have the following property: every two-coloring of the subsets of [n] contains a monochromatic union-closed family with more than n^d members.**

Full local mode. Writer used the 1978 source and current problem page; the 2026 paper was opened before narrowing the scope. Independent transcription bridges both ways, constant colorings witness the domain, the exact negation is a fixed polynomial obstruction on arbitrarily large dimensions, and all eleven degenerates red as restatements. The whole attack kernel-checks closure of all nonempty unions generated by fixed atoms and identifies the quantitative bottleneck: fixed-k finite-unions Ramsey results do not provide k growing faster than each constant times log n. A separate chain-pigeonhole theorem preflights green and recovers the classical linear route. Vendor diversity was unavailable; sources varied by role.

**Scope.**

The surviving superpolynomial lower-bound conjecture for F(n); subsets of [n] are Finset (Fin n), colors are Bool, closure includes the union of every two members.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.BooleanAlgebra
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Card

namespace Statements.Erdos1183SuperpolynomialUnionClosed

def Monochromatic {n : ℕ}
    (color : Finset (Fin n) → Bool)
    (family : Finset (Finset (Fin n))) : Prop :=
  ∃ b : Bool, ∀ A ∈ family, color A = b

def UnionClosed {n : ℕ}
    (family : Finset (Finset (Fin n))) : Prop :=
  ∀ A ∈ family, ∀ B ∈ family, A ∪ B ∈ family

/-- The still-open superpolynomial half of Erdős Problem 1183:
every fixed polynomial lower bound should eventually be forced in
every two-coloring of the Boolean lattice. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ d : ℕ, ∃ N : ℕ, ∀ n : ℕ, N ≤ n →
    ∀ color : Finset (Fin n) → Bool,
      ∃ family : Finset (Finset (Fin n)),
        Monochromatic color family ∧
          UnionClosed family ∧ n ^ d < family.card

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos1183SuperpolynomialUnionClosed
```

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