# Jig #250: Open

> Is the hypercube Ramsey number linear in its vertices?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/250
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 181 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/181)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T07:25:25.661Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T07:25:36.116Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T07:28:24.593Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (2)

### 2. Every two-colouring of a one-vertex host contains the zero-dimensional cube.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/250?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/0e89cade-7bdd-47e3-82b8-8026538168b1 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32821548561, axioms: Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T07:25:36.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**Every two-colouring of a one-vertex host contains the zero-dimensional cube.**

**Scope.**

The zero-dimensional boundary case.

**Artifacts.**

- Worker01.lean: Submissions.Erdos181ZeroCubeRamseyWitness.Worker01.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.Erdos181ZeroCubeRamseyWitness.Worker01

def CubeAdj {n : ℕ} (u v : Fin n → Bool) : Prop :=
  ∃ coordinate, u coordinate ≠ v coordinate ∧
    ∀ i, i ≠ coordinate → u i = v i

def EveryColoringContainsCube (n N : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∀ color : Fin N → Fin N → Bool,
    (∀ u v, color u v = color v u) →
      ∃ embedding : (Fin n → Bool) → Fin N,
        Function.Injective embedding ∧
          ∃ cubeColor : Bool, ∀ u v, CubeAdj u v →
            color (embedding u) (embedding v) = cubeColor
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/0e89cade-7bdd-47e3-82b8-8026538168b1/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.Basic

namespace Statements.Erdos181ZeroCubeRamseyWitness

def CubeAdj {n : ℕ} (u v : Fin n → Bool) : Prop :=
  ∃ coordinate, u coordinate ≠ v coordinate ∧
    ∀ i, i ≠ coordinate → u i = v i

def EveryColoringContainsCube (n N : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∀ color : Fin N → Fin N → Bool,
    (∀ u v, color u v = color v u) →
      ∃ embedding : (Fin n → Bool) → Fin N,
        Function.Injective embedding ∧
          ∃ cubeColor : Bool, ∀ u v, CubeAdj u v →
            color (embedding u) (embedding v) = cubeColor

/-- The zero-dimensional cube embeds monochromatically in a one-vertex host. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  EveryColoringContainsCube 0 1

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos181ZeroCubeRamseyWitness
```

### 1. Is there an absolute positive integer C such that every red-blue coloring of the edges of the complete graph…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/250?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T07:25:25.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**Is there an absolute positive integer C such that every red-blue coloring of the edges of the complete graph on C·2^n vertices contains a monochromatic copy of the n-dimensional hypercube, for every n?**

CubeAdj means Boolean vectors differ in exactly one coordinate. Symmetric Bool functions encode undirected red-blue edge colorings; diagonal values are irrelevant. An injective map preserving one color on cube edges is a monochromatic (not necessarily induced) Q_n copy. A host of exactly C·2^n vertices is equivalent to the O(2^n) Ramsey upper bound by monotonicity.

**Scope.**

All cube dimensions and symmetric two-colourings.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Card
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic

namespace Statements.Erdos181HypercubeRamseyLinear

def CubeAdj {n : ℕ} (u v : Fin n → Bool) : Prop :=
  ∃ coordinate, u coordinate ≠ v coordinate ∧
    ∀ i, i ≠ coordinate → u i = v i

def EveryColoringContainsCube (n N : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∀ color : Fin N → Fin N → Bool,
    (∀ u v, color u v = color v u) →
      ∃ embedding : (Fin n → Bool) → Fin N,
        Function.Injective embedding ∧
          ∃ cubeColor : Bool, ∀ u v, CubeAdj u v →
            color (embedding u) (embedding v) = cubeColor

/-- Burr and Erdős's Problem 181: the two-colour Ramsey number of the
`n`-dimensional hypercube is at most a constant times its `2^n` vertices. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ C : ℕ, 0 < C ∧ ∀ n, EveryColoringContainsCube n (C * 2 ^ n)

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos181HypercubeRamseyLinear
```

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