# Jig #359: Open

> Does every consecutive-prime gap satisfy the Erdős–Graham LCM inequality?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/359
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 458 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/458)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T10:04:07.966Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T10:04:07.970Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T10:05:48.319Z
- Statements: 1
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

Answer space still open, over time

## Statements (1)

### 1. For consecutive primes p_k,p_(k+1), lcm(1,...,p_(k+1)-1) is less than p_k times lcm(1,...,p_k).

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/359?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T10:04:07.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**For consecutive primes p_k,p_(k+1), lcm(1,...,p_(k+1)-1) is less than p_k times lcm(1,...,p_k).**

Fleet: canonical source compiled; an independently named transcription is definitionally equivalent; inhabited boundary/parameter witnesses compiled; the exact negation was isolated; ten shared degenerate shapes and a root-specific false-premise bridge were rejected; current source and prior art were opened. Whole attack: The LCM quotient is the product of bases of proper prime powers lying in one consecutive-prime gap. Thus a counterexample needs several such powers with base product at least the lower prime. Finite verification and current prime-gap records do not supply the unconditional Legendre/Pillai separation needed at all scales. No full settlement is claimed.

**Scope.**

Every zero-based Mathlib prime index k, corresponding exactly to source k+1≥1; natural LCM over closed intervals.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Algebra.GCDMonoid.Finset
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Prime.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Prime.Nth
import Mathlib.Order.Interval.Finset.Nat

namespace Statements.Erdos458PrimeGapLCM

/-- The least common multiple of the integers in `[1,n]`. -/
def lcmUpto (n : ℕ) : ℕ := (Finset.Icc 1 n).lcm id

/-- Erdős--Graham's prime-gap LCM conjecture. `Nat.nth Nat.Prime` is
zero-indexed, so Lean index `k` represents the source prime `p_(k+1)`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ k : ℕ,
    lcmUpto ((k + 1).nth Nat.Prime - 1) <
      k.nth Nat.Prime * lcmUpto (k.nth Nat.Prime)

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos458PrimeGapLCM
```

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