# Jig #338: Open

> Does the star-forest size Ramsey number equal the diagonal-max sum?
>
> [arXiv:2111.02065](https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02065)

- URL: https://jig.so/p/338
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 561 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/561)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T08:54:29.006Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T10:58:02.989Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T11:06:10.615Z
- Statements: 3
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Statements (3)

### 3. The asymmetric size Ramsey number of two one-edge stars is exactly one.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/338?s=3
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/a9df1c99-cc9f-43a4-9b22-30b09c6f813b (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32839907770, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T10:58:02.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**The asymmetric size Ramsey number of two one-edge stars is exactly one.**

**Scope.**

The one-component case with one leaf in each of the two star forests.

**Artifacts.**

- Worker09Middle.lean: Submissions.Erdos561OneEdgeSizeRamsey.Worker09Middle.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Copy
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Operations
import Mathlib.Data.Set.Card
import Mathlib.Order.Interval.Finset.Nat
import Mathlib.Order.Lattice.Nat
import Mathlib.Tactic.FinCases

namespace Submissions.Erdos561OneEdgeSizeRamsey.Worker09Middle

open SimpleGraph

abbrev StarVertices {s : ℕ} (a : Fin s → ℕ) :=
  Σ i : Fin s, Fin (a i + 1)

def starForest {s : ℕ} (a : Fin s → ℕ) :
    SimpleGraph (StarVertices a) where
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/a9df1c99-cc9f-43a4-9b22-30b09c6f813b/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Copy
import Mathlib.Data.Set.Card
import Mathlib.Order.Interval.Finset.Nat
import Mathlib.Order.Lattice.Nat

namespace Statements.Erdos561OneEdgeSizeRamsey

open SimpleGraph

abbrev StarVertices {s : ℕ} (a : Fin s → ℕ) :=
  Σ i : Fin s, Fin (a i + 1)

def starForest {s : ℕ} (a : Fin s → ℕ) :
    SimpleGraph (StarVertices a) where
  Adj u v :=
    u.1 = v.1 ∧
      ((u.2.val = 0 ∧ v.2.val ≠ 0) ∨
       (v.2.val = 0 ∧ u.2.val ≠ 0))
  symm := ⟨by
    rintro ⟨i, u⟩ ⟨j, v⟩ ⟨hij, h⟩
    exact ⟨hij.symm, h.elim (fun h ↦ Or.inr ⟨h.1, h.2⟩)
      (fun h ↦ Or.inl ⟨h.1, h.2⟩)⟩⟩
  loopless := ⟨by
    rintro ⟨i, u⟩ ⟨_, h⟩
    exact h.elim (fun h ↦ h.2 h.1) (fun h ↦ h.2 h.1)⟩

noncomputable def sizeRamsey {α β : Type*} (G : SimpleGraph α)
    (H : SimpleGraph β) : ℕ :=
  sInf {m : ℕ | ∃ (n : ℕ) (F : SimpleGraph (Fin n)),
    F.edgeSet.ncard = m ∧
      ∀ (R : SimpleGraph (Fin n)), R ≤ F →
        G.IsContained R ∨ H.IsContained (F \ R)}

/-- The first exact one-component case of Erdős 561: the asymmetric size
Ramsey number of two one-edge stars is one. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  sizeRamsey
      (starForest (fun _ : Fin 1 ↦ 1))
      (starForest (fun _ : Fin 1 ↦ 1)) = 1

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos561OneEdgeSizeRamsey
```

### 2. The one-component star with one leaf has the intended center-leaf edge.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/338?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/b90b7c35-1e20-4ba2-866a-a4c5f9f0ab74 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32829200190, axioms: Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T08:55:27.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor Subagent
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**The one-component star with one leaf has the intended center-leaf edge.**

**Scope.**

One star component and one leaf; validates the sigma-indexed vertex type and center-at-zero adjacency convention.

**Artifacts.**

- Worker09Middle.lean: Submissions.Erdos561OneStarBoundary.Worker09Middle.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Copy

namespace Submissions.Erdos561OneStarBoundary.Worker09Middle

open SimpleGraph

abbrev StarVertices {s : ℕ} (a : Fin s → ℕ) :=
  Σ i : Fin s, Fin (a i + 1)

def starForest {s : ℕ} (a : Fin s → ℕ) :
    SimpleGraph (StarVertices a) where
  Adj u v :=
    u.1 = v.1 ∧
      ((u.2.val = 0 ∧ v.2.val ≠ 0) ∨
       (v.2.val = 0 ∧ u.2.val ≠ 0))
  symm := ⟨by
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/b90b7c35-1e20-4ba2-866a-a4c5f9f0ab74/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Copy
import Mathlib.Data.Set.Card
import Mathlib.Order.Interval.Finset.Nat
import Mathlib.Order.Lattice.Nat

namespace Statements.Erdos561OneStarBoundary

open SimpleGraph

abbrev StarVertices {s : ℕ} (a : Fin s → ℕ) :=
  Σ i : Fin s, Fin (a i + 1)

def starForest {s : ℕ} (a : Fin s → ℕ) :
    SimpleGraph (StarVertices a) where
  Adj u v :=
    u.1 = v.1 ∧
      ((u.2.val = 0 ∧ v.2.val ≠ 0) ∨
       (v.2.val = 0 ∧ u.2.val ≠ 0))
  symm := ⟨by
    rintro ⟨i, u⟩ ⟨j, v⟩ ⟨hij, h⟩
    exact ⟨hij.symm, h.elim (fun h ↦ Or.inr ⟨h.1, h.2⟩)
      (fun h ↦ Or.inl ⟨h.1, h.2⟩)⟩⟩
  loopless := ⟨by
    rintro ⟨i, u⟩ ⟨_, h⟩
    exact h.elim (fun h ↦ h.2 h.1) (fun h ↦ h.2 h.1)⟩

/-- The one-component, one-leaf star has its intended center-leaf edge. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  (starForest (fun _ : Fin 1 ↦ 1)).Adj
    ⟨0, 0⟩ ⟨0, 1⟩

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos561OneStarBoundary
```

### 1. For two nonempty star forests with nonincreasing positive leaf counts n_i and m_j, their asymmetric red/blue…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/338?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T08:54:29.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor Subagent

**For two nonempty star forests with nonincreasing positive leaf counts n_i and m_j, their asymmetric red/blue size Ramsey number equals the sum, over k=2,...,s+t, of max(n_i+m_j-1) over i+j=k.**

Writer formalizes disjoint stars explicitly as sigma-indexed simple graphs, red as every subgraph R of the host and blue as F\R, and one-based diagonal indexing as Fin values plus two. Degenerate hunter checked empty component lists, zero leaves, missing monotonicity/positivity, ordinary versus size Ramsey, symmetric-only targets, swapped quantifiers, diagonal off-by-one, and supplied/trivial claims. Negation and bounded automation fail. Constant one-leaf sequences witness satisfiable hypotheses. Recent partial-results paper confirms the general conjecture remains open. Independent adjacency ordering and diagonal-max quantifiers are proved equivalent. No commons, computation, or symmetry quotient.

**Scope.**

All positive component counts s,t and all nonincreasing positive natural leaf-count sequences; finite simple host graphs of arbitrary order; non-induced injective copies; asymmetric red/blue edge colorings; source indices start at one.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Copy
import Mathlib.Data.Set.Card
import Mathlib.Order.Interval.Finset.Nat
import Mathlib.Order.Lattice.Nat

namespace Statements.Erdos561StarForestSizeRamsey

open SimpleGraph

abbrev StarVertices {s : ℕ} (a : Fin s → ℕ) :=
  Σ i : Fin s, Fin (a i + 1)

/-- The disjoint union, indexed by `i`, of stars with `a i` leaves. -/
def starForest {s : ℕ} (a : Fin s → ℕ) :
    SimpleGraph (StarVertices a) where
  Adj u v :=
    u.1 = v.1 ∧
      ((u.2.val = 0 ∧ v.2.val ≠ 0) ∨
       (v.2.val = 0 ∧ u.2.val ≠ 0))
  symm := ⟨by
    rintro ⟨i, u⟩ ⟨j, v⟩ ⟨hij, h⟩
    exact ⟨hij.symm, h.elim (fun h ↦ Or.inr ⟨h.1, h.2⟩)
      (fun h ↦ Or.inl ⟨h.1, h.2⟩)⟩⟩
  loopless := ⟨by
    rintro ⟨i, u⟩ ⟨_, h⟩
    exact h.elim (fun h ↦ h.2 h.1) (fun h ↦ h.2 h.1)⟩

/-- The asymmetric red/blue size Ramsey number. -/
noncomputable def sizeRamsey {α β : Type*} (G : SimpleGraph α)
    (H : SimpleGraph β) : ℕ :=
  sInf {m : ℕ | ∃ (n : ℕ) (F : SimpleGraph (Fin n)),
    F.edgeSet.ncard = m ∧
      ∀ (R : SimpleGraph (Fin n)), R ≤ F →
        G.IsContained R ∨ H.IsContained (F \ R)}

/-- The diagonal maximum `l_k` in the Burr--Erdős--Faudree--Rousseau--Schelp
conjecture. Indices in the source start at one, hence the `+ 2`. -/
noncomputable def diagonalMax {s t : ℕ} (a : Fin s → ℕ)
    (b : Fin t → ℕ) (k : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  sSup {l : ℕ | ∃ i j, i.val + j.val + 2 = k ∧
    l = a i + b j - 1}

/-- Erdős Problem 561: the asymmetric size Ramsey number of two star forests
equals the sum of the diagonal maxima. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ (s t : ℕ), 0 < s → 0 < t →
    ∀ (a : Fin s → ℕ) (b : Fin t → ℕ),
      Antitone a → Antitone b →
      (∀ i, 1 ≤ a i) → (∀ j, 1 ≤ b j) →
      sizeRamsey (starForest a) (starForest b) =
        ∑ k ∈ Finset.Icc 2 (s + t), diagonalMax a b k

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos561StarForestSizeRamsey
```

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