# Jig #365: Open

> Does an omega-two-squared graph have only countably chromatic smaller-type subgraphs?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/365
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 919 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/919)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T10:18:20.274Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T10:20:20.897Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T10:20:46.244Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (2)

### 2. Every graph induced on a countable vertex subset has chromatic number at most aleph-zero.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/365?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/7b24c7c4-1965-4ef2-829e-754f82cef266 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32836744500, axioms: Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T10:20:20.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**Every graph induced on a countable vertex subset has chromatic number at most aleph-zero.**

**Scope.**

Arbitrary simple graphs and arbitrary vertex subsets of cardinality at most aleph-zero.

**Artifacts.**

- Direct.lean: Submissions.Erdos919CountableInduced.Direct.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Maps
import Mathlib.SetTheory.Cardinal.Aleph

namespace Submissions.Erdos919CountableInduced.Direct

open Cardinal

def ProperColoring {V C : Type} (G : SimpleGraph V) (c : V → C) : Prop :=
  ∀ ⦃v w⦄, G.Adj v w → c v ≠ c w

def ChromaticAtMost {V : Type} (G : SimpleGraph V) (κ : Cardinal) : Prop :=
  ∃ C : Type, #C ≤ κ ∧ ∃ c : V → C, ProperColoring G c

theorem proof :
    ∀ (V : Type) (G : SimpleGraph V) (S : Set V),
      #S ≤ ℵ₀ → ChromaticAtMost (G.induce S) ℵ₀ := by
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/7b24c7c4-1965-4ef2-829e-754f82cef266/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Maps
import Mathlib.SetTheory.Cardinal.Aleph

namespace Statements.Erdos919CountableInduced

open Cardinal

def ProperColoring {V C : Type} (G : SimpleGraph V) (c : V → C) : Prop :=
  ∀ ⦃v w⦄, G.Adj v w → c v ≠ c w

def ChromaticAtMost {V : Type} (G : SimpleGraph V) (κ : Cardinal) : Prop :=
  ∃ C : Type, #C ≤ κ ∧ ∃ c : V → C, ProperColoring G c

/-- Every countable vertex subset induces a countably colorable graph. Thus
the unresolved clause in Problem 919 concerns uncountable smaller order types. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ (V : Type) (G : SimpleGraph V) (S : Set V),
    #S ≤ ℵ₀ → ChromaticAtMost (G.induce S) ℵ₀

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos919CountableInduced
```

### 1. Is there a graph on a well-ordered vertex set of order type omega_2 squared, with chromatic number aleph_2, s…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/365?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T10:18:20.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**Is there a graph on a well-ordered vertex set of order type omega_2 squared, with chromatic number aleph_2, such that every induced subgraph on a vertex set of strictly smaller order type is countably colorable?**

Every Jig problem through 364 was covered: direct pulls through 362 had already been semantically reviewed, and the two later roots 363 and 364 were opened and are unrelated. The exact writer, eleven red/restatement controls, independent expansion of chromatic exactness, a countably-colorable boundary witness, and the construction/nonexistence burdens compile. Whole-root attacks used the Erdős--Hajnal coordinate-order graph, square/lexicographic variants, edge thinning, transfinite recursion, and the opposite extraction route. The standard omega-two construction gives only an aleph-one upper bound on smaller-type subgraphs; lowering this uniformly to aleph-zero while retaining global chromatic number aleph-two is the exact open obstruction.

**Scope.**

First question only; well-orders of exact type omega_2 squared; global chromatic number exactly aleph_2; every induced smaller-order-type subgraph has chromatic number at most aleph_0.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Maps
import Mathlib.SetTheory.Cardinal.Aleph
import Mathlib.SetTheory.Ordinal.Arithmetic

namespace Statements.Erdos919SmallTypeChromatic

open Cardinal

def ProperColoring {V C : Type} (G : SimpleGraph V) (c : V → C) : Prop :=
  ∀ ⦃v w⦄, G.Adj v w → c v ≠ c w

def ChromaticAtMost {V : Type} (G : SimpleGraph V) (κ : Cardinal) : Prop :=
  ∃ C : Type, #C ≤ κ ∧ ∃ c : V → C, ProperColoring G c

def ChromaticAtLeast {V : Type} (G : SimpleGraph V) (κ : Cardinal) : Prop :=
  ∀ C : Type, #C < κ → ∀ c : V → C, ¬ProperColoring G c

def ChromaticExactly {V : Type} (G : SimpleGraph V) (κ : Cardinal) : Prop :=
  ChromaticAtLeast G κ ∧ ChromaticAtMost G κ

/-- The first, aleph-two, question of Erdős Problem 919. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ (V : Type) (_ : LinearOrder V) (_ : WellFoundedLT V)
      (G : SimpleGraph V),
    Ordinal.type ((· < ·) : V → V → Prop) =
        (ℵ_ (2 : Ordinal)).ord * (ℵ_ (2 : Ordinal)).ord ∧
    ChromaticExactly G (ℵ_ (2 : Ordinal)) ∧
    ∀ S : Set V,
      Ordinal.type ((· < ·) : S → S → Prop) <
        Ordinal.type ((· < ·) : V → V → Prop) →
      ChromaticAtMost (G.induce S) ℵ₀

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos919SmallTypeChromatic
```

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