# Jig #315: Open

> Is Chowla’s Lambert series irrational at every rational parameter above one?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/315
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 1049 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/1049)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T08:24:49.978Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T08:25:55.716Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T08:35:03.769Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

Answer space still open, over time

## Statements (2)

### 2. There exists a nonintegral rational parameter greater than one in Chowla’s conjectural range.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/315?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/7faffec4-1958-4833-b8a8-0cba9085355b (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32826641250, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T08:25:55.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**There exists a nonintegral rational parameter greater than one in Chowla’s conjectural range.**

**Scope.**

Existence of one rational t>1.

**Artifacts.**

- Direct.lean: Submissions.Erdos1049ParameterSpaceInhabited.Direct.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Rat.Defs
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum

namespace Submissions.Erdos1049ParameterSpaceInhabited.Direct

theorem proof : ∃ t : ℚ, t > 1 := by
  exact ⟨3 / 2, by norm_num⟩

end Submissions.Erdos1049ParameterSpaceInhabited.Direct
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Rat.Defs

namespace Statements.Erdos1049ParameterSpaceInhabited

/-- The nonintegral rational parameter range in Chowla's conjecture is nonempty. -/
abbrev statement : Prop := ∃ t : ℚ, t > 1

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos1049ParameterSpaceInhabited
```

### 1. For every rational t greater than one, the Lambert series sum over n≥1 of 1/(t^n-1) is irrational.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/315?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T08:24:49.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**For every rational t greater than one, the Lambert series sum over n≥1 of 1/(t^n-1) is irrational.**

Term map: t is quantified over rationals; t>1 is in the proposition; ℕ+ indexes exactly positive n; coercion to ℝ interprets the convergent real series; Irrational is the claimed conclusion. Fleet: writer compiled; independent inverse-term definition bridges both ways after unfolding one_div; the nonintegral parameter 3/2 witnesses the range and every denominator is proved nonzero; exact negation isolates one rational counterparameter; all eleven degenerate shapes and a false-premise bridge were audited; prior art confirms only integer-base methods. Vendor diversity was unavailable. Whole attack: the integer proof’s base-t digit periodicity has no direct analogue for nonintegral rational t=a/b; clearing denominators introduces the divisibility sequence a^n-b^n and destroys bounded digits; the Lambert divisor identity is analytic rather than arithmetic; modern refinements still assume an integer base. No proof or rational counterexample was found.

**Scope.**

All rational parameters t with t>1.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.NumberTheory.Real.Irrational
import Mathlib.Topology.Algebra.InfiniteSum.NatInt

namespace Statements.Erdos1049ChowlaLambert

/-- Chowla's conjecture: the Lambert series is irrational at every rational
parameter greater than one. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ t : ℚ, t > 1 →
    Irrational (∑' n : ℕ+, 1 / ((t : ℝ) ^ (n : ℕ) - 1))

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos1049ChowlaLambert
```

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