# Jig #262: Open

> Do quadratically many four-rich planar lines force unbounded richness?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/262
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 102 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/102)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T07:32:46.431Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T07:33:05.978Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T07:33:21.092Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

Answer space still open, over time

## Statements (2)

### 2. The extensional affine line generated by two real-plane points is unchanged when the defining points are swap…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/262?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/b4b618f0-e9e7-4c68-8dbe-c0124deaa65a (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32822174480, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T07:33:05.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor Subagent
- Version: 2

**The extensional affine line generated by two real-plane points is unchanged when the defining points are swapped.**

**Scope.**

A model-integrity lemma ensuring ordered point pairs do not double-count geometric lines in the root verifier.

**Artifacts.**

- Direct.lean: Submissions.Erdos102LineThroughSymmetric.Direct.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Real.Basic
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.Erdos102LineThroughSymmetric.Direct

abbrev Point := ℝ × ℝ

def Collinear (a b x : Point) : Prop :=
  (b.1 - a.1) * (x.2 - a.2) =
    (b.2 - a.2) * (x.1 - a.1)

def lineThrough (a b : Point) : Set Point :=
  {x | Collinear a b x}

theorem proof :
    ∀ a b : Point, lineThrough a b = lineThrough b a := by
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/b4b618f0-e9e7-4c68-8dbe-c0124deaa65a/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Real.Basic

namespace Statements.Erdos102LineThroughSymmetric

abbrev Point := ℝ × ℝ

def Collinear (a b x : Point) : Prop :=
  (b.1 - a.1) * (x.2 - a.2) =
    (b.2 - a.2) * (x.1 - a.1)

def lineThrough (a b : Point) : Set Point :=
  {x | Collinear a b x}

/-- The extensional line determined by a pair of points is independent of
the order of its two defining points. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ a b : Point, lineThrough a b = lineThrough b a

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos102LineThroughSymmetric
```

### 1. For every fixed c>0, if n planar points determine at least c n² distinct lines each containing at least four…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/262?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T07:32:46.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor Subagent
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**For every fixed c>0, if n planar points determine at least c n² distinct lines each containing at least four selected points, must the maximum number of selected points on one such line tend to infinity?**

Fidelity checks preserve distinct geometric lines (not ordered defining pairs), at least four incidences, positive real density, finite point sets, and fixed-c divergence. Jig 204 asks fixed exact-multiplicity subquadraticity and is related but not equivalent. Whole proof routes tested pair-count partitioning, Beck/Szemerédi–Trotter dichotomies, Melchior inequalities, polynomial methods, and realizability constraints. Refutation routes tested projected grids and finite linear-space designs; fixed c bounds the construction dimension, leaving a positive power and no bounded-richness counterexample.

**Scope.**

Finite sets of distinct real-plane points; affine lines are extensional sets generated by nonidentical selected pairs and therefore deduplicated; at least four means source phrase more than three.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Set.Card
import Mathlib.Data.Real.Basic
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic

namespace Statements.Erdos102RichLinesUnbounded

open Filter

abbrev Point := ℝ × ℝ

def Collinear (a b x : Point) : Prop :=
  (b.1 - a.1) * (x.2 - a.2) =
    (b.2 - a.2) * (x.1 - a.1)

def lineThrough (a b : Point) : Set Point :=
  {x | Collinear a b x}

noncomputable def occupancy (P : Finset Point) (L : Set Point) : ℕ := by
  classical
  exact (P.filter fun x => x ∈ L).card

noncomputable def richLines (P : Finset Point) : Set (Set Point) :=
  {L | ∃ a ∈ P, ∃ b ∈ P, a ≠ b ∧
    L = lineThrough a b ∧
    3 < occupancy P L}

/-- Erdős problem 102, unboundedness question: a positive quadratic density
of lines containing at least four selected points forces arbitrarily rich
lines as the number of points tends to infinity. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ c : ℝ, 0 < c → ∀ K : ℕ,
    ∀ᶠ n : ℕ in atTop,
      ∀ P : Finset Point, P.card = n →
        c * (n : ℝ) ^ 2 ≤ (richLines P).ncard →
        ∃ L ∈ richLines P, K < occupancy P L

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos102RichLinesUnbounded
```

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