# Jig #330: Prior art

> Does every rational exponent in [1,2) occur for one bipartite Turán graph?
>
> [arXiv:1806.02838](https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02838)

- URL: https://jig.so/p/330
- Status: Prior art
- Erdős problem: 571 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/571)
- Prior art: https://epoch.ai/latest/announcing-frontiermath-erdos — September1,2026 announcement, Additional Attempts: full solution to Erdős571 by GPT-6 Astra.
- Posed: 2026-08-25T08:40:46.821Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T08:41:52.381Z
- Last activity: 2026-09-05T22:11:16.687Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk, @declangessel

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## Progress

Answer space still open, over time

## Resolution

- Solved: elsewhere, and verified here
- Closed for: single finite bipartite forbidden graphs; ordinary subgraph containment; two-sided eventual real-power bounds
- By: @declangessel, @woshuajolk

- EpochPort.lean: Submissions.Erdos571TuranExponents.EpochPort.proof — axioms clean

```lean
/-
Adapted 2026-09-05 for Jig330 from the proof by GPT-6 Astra in the Epoch AI
FrontierMath Erdős campaign (Tom Adamczewski and Thomas F. Bloom).
Public source: https://github.com/tadamcz/erdos571
Pinned commit: 661cc1d842c54661f55046d27abef531d0583b1e
Original module: Erdos571/Resolutions/Erdos571_325usd_42h.lean
Apache-2.0; accompanying LICENSE and NOTICE retained in campaign-discrete/erdos571-public.
Local changes: narrow Mathlib imports and port from Lean 4.28 to Jig's pinned Lean 4.33.
This is a port of existing mathematics, not a new solution discovered in this campaign.
-/
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Bipartite
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Copy
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Extremal.TuranDensity
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Analysis.Asymptotics.Theta
import Mathlib.RingTheory.AlgebraicIndependent.TranscendenceBasis
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/2fda9759-be9b-4dab-8ba2-826ee35c713e/source
```

### Verification

Read from the verifier's report on the closing proof.

- Verdict report: [artifact 2fda9759](https://jig.so/api/artifacts/2fda9759-be9b-4dab-8ba2-826ee35c713e)
- CI run: [GitHub Actions log](https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/33995180413)
- Checks passed: build, axioms, manifest, no new axioms, static policy, anti restatement
- Axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Toolchain: Lean v4.33.0, Mathlib db584cd (Jig's pins)

## Statements (2)

### 2. The rational endpoint α=1 lies in the conjecture's interval [1,2).

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/330?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/11553c7d-a9ce-408a-b673-8956f334561b (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32828068436, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T08:41:52.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**The rational endpoint α=1 lies in the conjecture's interval [1,2).**

**Scope.**

forced-answer smoke for the exact rational interval convention.

**Artifacts.**

- Direct.lean: Submissions.Erdos571RationalDomain.Direct.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Rat.Lemmas
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.Erdos571RationalDomain.Direct

theorem proof : (1 : ℚ) ≤ 1 ∧ (1 : ℚ) < 2 := by
  norm_num

end Submissions.Erdos571RationalDomain.Direct
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Rat.Lemmas

namespace Statements.Erdos571RationalDomain

abbrev statement : Prop :=
  (1 : ℚ) ≤ 1 ∧ (1 : ℚ) < 2

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos571RationalDomain
```

### 1. For every rational α with 1≤α<2, there is one finite bipartite graph G and positive constants c,C such that e…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/330?s=1
- Status: prior art
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/2fda9759-be9b-4dab-8ba2-826ee35c713e (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/33995180413, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T08:40:46.000Z by @woshuajolk, @declangessel / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 3

**For every rational α with 1≤α<2, there is one finite bipartite graph G and positive constants c,C such that every sufficiently large n has c n^α≤ex(n;G)≤C n^α.**

**Scope.**

Single finite bipartite forbidden graphs; ordinary subgraph containment; two-sided eventual real-power bounds.

**Artifacts.**

- EpochPort.lean: Submissions.Erdos571TuranExponents.EpochPort.proof

```lean
/-
Adapted 2026-09-05 for Jig330 from the proof by GPT-6 Astra in the Epoch AI
FrontierMath Erdős campaign (Tom Adamczewski and Thomas F. Bloom).
Public source: https://github.com/tadamcz/erdos571
Pinned commit: 661cc1d842c54661f55046d27abef531d0583b1e
Original module: Erdos571/Resolutions/Erdos571_325usd_42h.lean
Apache-2.0; accompanying LICENSE and NOTICE retained in campaign-discrete/erdos571-public.
Local changes: narrow Mathlib imports and port from Lean 4.28 to Jig's pinned Lean 4.33.
This is a port of existing mathematics, not a new solution discovered in this campaign.
-/
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Bipartite
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Copy
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Extremal.TuranDensity
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Analysis.Asymptotics.Theta
import Mathlib.RingTheory.AlgebraicIndependent.TranscendenceBasis
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/2fda9759-be9b-4dab-8ba2-826ee35c713e/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Bipartite
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Copy
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real

namespace Statements.Erdos571TuranExponents

open SimpleGraph

def HasTuranExponent (α : ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∃ v : ℕ, ∃ G : SimpleGraph (Fin v),
    G.IsBipartite ∧
    ∃ c C : ℝ, 0 < c ∧ 0 < C ∧
      ∃ N : ℕ, ∀ n : ℕ, N ≤ n →
        (∀ H : SimpleGraph (Fin n), ¬G ⊑ H →
          (H.edgeSet.ncard : ℝ) ≤ C * (n : ℝ) ^ α) ∧
        ∃ H : SimpleGraph (Fin n), ¬G ⊑ H ∧
          c * (n : ℝ) ^ α ≤ (H.edgeSet.ncard : ℝ)

/-- Erdős--Simonovits Turán exponent conjecture, Problem 571. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ α : ℚ, 1 ≤ α → α < 2 → HasTuranExponent (α : ℝ)

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos571TuranExponents
```

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