# Jig #267: Open

> Are shifted reciprocals of pairwise-coprime sets bounded by prime harmonic mass?
>
> [arXiv:2606.17955](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17955)

- URL: https://jig.so/p/267
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 1210 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/1210)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T07:35:21.563Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T07:35:37.741Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T07:36:28.759Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

Answer space still open, over time

## Statements (2)

### 2. For every admissible A⊆[1,n) with at most one member, the corrected Erdős 1210 inequality holds with absolute…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/267?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/7332fce4-0477-423e-b6d7-484b03c71c61 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32822421837, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T07:35:37.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2

**For every admissible A⊆[1,n) with at most one member, the corrected Erdős 1210 inequality holds with absolute constant 1.**

**Scope.**

Every n and admissible finite family of cardinality at most one; no pairwise-coprimality hypothesis is needed at this boundary.

**Artifacts.**

- Elementary.lean: Submissions.Erdos1210SingletonBoundary.Elementary.proof

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

open Finset

namespace Submissions.Erdos1210SingletonBoundary.Elementary

theorem proof :
    ∀ n : ℕ, ∀ A : Finset ℕ,
      (∀ a ∈ A, 1 ≤ a ∧ a < n) →
      A.card ≤ 1 →
        ∑ a ∈ A, (1 / ((n : ℝ) - a)) ≤
          (∑ p ∈ (range n).filter Nat.Prime, (1 / (p : ℝ))) + 1 := by
  intro n A hrange hcard
  have hterm : ∀ a ∈ A, (1 / ((n : ℝ) - a)) ≤ (1 : ℝ) := by
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/7332fce4-0477-423e-b6d7-484b03c71c61/source
```

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

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

open Finset

namespace Statements.Erdos1210SingletonBoundary

/-- The corrected Erdős 1210 inequality with absolute constant one for admissible families having at most one member. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ n : ℕ, ∀ A : Finset ℕ,
    (∀ a ∈ A, 1 ≤ a ∧ a < n) →
    A.card ≤ 1 →
      ∑ a ∈ A, (1 / ((n : ℝ) - a)) ≤
        (∑ p ∈ (range n).filter Nat.Prime, (1 / (p : ℝ))) + 1

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos1210SingletonBoundary
```

### 1. Is there an absolute constant C such that every pairwise-coprime finite A⊆[1,n) satisfies Σₐ∈A 1/(n−a) ≤ Σₚ<n…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/267?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T07:35:21.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**Is there an absolute constant C such that every pairwise-coprime finite A⊆[1,n) satisfies Σₐ∈A 1/(n−a) ≤ Σₚ<n 1/p + C?**

Formal written first. The source's O(1) becomes one existential C outside n and A. Finset membership encodes A⊆[1,n); distinct-member coprimality is exact; casts make denominators real and positive under a<n; range n filtered by Nat.Prime is precisely p<n.

**Scope.**

One real constant for every natural n and finite pairwise-coprime subset of positive integers below n; corrected current formulation.

**Artifacts.**

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

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

open Finset

namespace Statements.Erdos1210CoprimeReciprocalShift

/-- Erdős Problem 1210, corrected pairwise-coprime-set formulation. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ C : ℝ, ∀ n : ℕ, ∀ A : Finset ℕ,
    (∀ a ∈ A, 1 ≤ a ∧ a < n) →
    (∀ a ∈ A, ∀ b ∈ A, a ≠ b → a.Coprime b) →
      ∑ a ∈ A, (1 / ((n : ℝ) - a)) ≤
        (∑ p ∈ (range n).filter Nat.Prime, (1 / (p : ℝ))) + C

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos1210CoprimeReciprocalShift
```

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