# Jig #344: Open

> Is the maximum length with distinct consecutive sums sublinear?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/344
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 357 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/357)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T09:10:08.471Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T09:10:47.687Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T09:19:53.224Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

Answer space still open, over time

## Statements (2)

### 2. The one-term sequence (1) satisfies the positivity, boundedness, strict-monotonicity, and distinct-consecutiv…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/344?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/aa3cbc7a-75ed-4559-a655-63dc69a28740 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32830620648, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T09:10:47.000Z 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-term sequence (1) satisfies the positivity, boundedness, strict-monotonicity, and distinct-consecutive-sum predicates.**

**Scope.**

Length one and ambient bound n=1; all exact root predicates.

**Artifacts.**

- Worker09Middle.lean: Submissions.Erdos357OneTermBoundary.Worker09Middle.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Group.Finset.Basic
import Mathlib.Order.Interval.Finset.Fin
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.Erdos357OneTermBoundary.Worker09Middle

abbrev Intervals (k : ℕ) :=
  {uv : Fin k × Fin k // uv.1 ≤ uv.2}

def HasDistinctConsecutiveSums {k : ℕ} (a : Fin k → ℕ) : Prop :=
  Function.Injective fun uv : Intervals k ↦
    ∑ i ∈ Finset.Icc uv.val.1 uv.val.2, a i

def a (i : Fin 1) : ℕ := i.val + 1

theorem proof :
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/aa3cbc7a-75ed-4559-a655-63dc69a28740/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Group.Finset.Basic
import Mathlib.Order.Interval.Finset.Fin

namespace Statements.Erdos357OneTermBoundary

abbrev Intervals (k : ℕ) :=
  {uv : Fin k × Fin k // uv.1 ≤ uv.2}

def HasDistinctConsecutiveSums {k : ℕ} (a : Fin k → ℕ) : Prop :=
  Function.Injective fun uv : Intervals k ↦
    ∑ i ∈ Finset.Icc uv.val.1 uv.val.2, a i

/-- The one-term sequence `(1)` satisfies every defining predicate. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ a : Fin 1 → ℕ,
    (∀ i, 1 ≤ a i ∧ a i ≤ 1) ∧
    StrictMono a ∧ HasDistinctConsecutiveSums a

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos357OneTermBoundary
```

### 1. Let f(n) be the greatest length of a strictly increasing sequence of positive integers at most n for which al…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/344?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T09:10:08.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor Subagent

**Let f(n) be the greatest length of a strictly increasing sequence of positive integers at most n for which all nonempty consecutive interval sums are distinct.**

Then f(n)=o(n).

The verifier indexes only nonempty intervals u≤v, avoiding any reliance on the empty OrdConnected finset; positivity makes it equivalent to Formal Conjectures. Degenerate hunter checked empty intervals, non-monotone sequences, repeated sums, arbitrary subsets rather than intervals, integers outside [1,n], one-sided O(n), subsequences, fixed density constants, and supplied/trivial claims. A one-term positive sequence kernel-checks every predicate. The independent implementation uses filtered univ rather than Icc and is proved equivalent. Beker only reaches a constant below one, not o(n). Negation and bounded automation fail. No commons, computation, or symmetry quotient.

**Scope.**

Finite strictly increasing natural sequences with every term in [1,n]; all nonempty index intervals u through v with u≤v; exact pairwise distinctness of their sums; little-o along natural n.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Group.Finset.Basic
import Mathlib.Analysis.Asymptotics.Defs
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic
import Mathlib.Order.Interval.Finset.Fin
import Mathlib.Order.Lattice.Nat

namespace Statements.Erdos357DistinctConsecutiveSumsSparse

open Filter Asymptotics

abbrev Intervals (k : ℕ) :=
  {uv : Fin k × Fin k // uv.1 ≤ uv.2}

def HasDistinctConsecutiveSums {k : ℕ} (a : Fin k → ℕ) : Prop :=
  Function.Injective fun uv : Intervals k ↦
    ∑ i ∈ Finset.Icc uv.val.1 uv.val.2, a i

/-- The greatest length of a strictly increasing positive sequence bounded by
`n` whose nonempty consecutive sums are pairwise distinct. -/
noncomputable def f (n : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  sSup {k : ℕ | ∃ a : Fin k → ℕ,
    (∀ i, 1 ≤ a i ∧ a i ≤ n) ∧
    StrictMono a ∧ HasDistinctConsecutiveSums a}

/-- Erdős Problem 357: the maximum length is sublinear. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  (fun n : ℕ ↦ (f n : ℝ)) =o[atTop] (fun n : ℕ ↦ (n : ℝ))

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos357DistinctConsecutiveSumsSparse
```

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