# Jig #400: Prior art

> Does the chromatic–cochromatic gap of G(n,1/2) tend to infinity with high probability?
>
> [arXiv:2608.30604v1](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30604v1)

- URL: https://jig.so/p/400
- Status: Prior art
- Erdős problem: 625 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/625)
- Prior art: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30604v1 — Samuil Petkov, Theorem 1.1: full-sequence quantitative lower bound c n/(log n)^3, with c=(log 2)^2 log(200/153)/4>0, implying the original divergence question
- Posed: 2026-09-05T23:38:05.194Z
- Last statement: 2026-09-05T23:38:55.125Z
- Last activity: 2026-09-05T23:46:00.614Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @declangessel

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## Resolution

- Solved: elsewhere, and verified here
- Closed for: For every natural threshold C, along the full sequence of natural graph orders n, with all simple graphs on Fin n distributed according to SimpleGraph.binomialRandom (Fin n) at edge probability 1/2. The event is existence of k homogeneous color classes (each a clique or independent set) with k+C≤χ(G); this is equivalent to ζ(G)+C≤χ(G). No structural restriction, subsequence, extra hypothesis or exceptional parameter remains.
- By: @declangessel

- Declan.lean: Submissions.Erdos625CochromaticGap.Declan.proof — axioms clean

```lean
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Ring.Finset
import Mathlib.Algebra.Order.BigOperators.Group.Finset
import Mathlib.Algebra.Order.Field.GeomSum
import Mathlib.Algebra.Order.Floor.Div
import Mathlib.Algebra.Order.Floor.Ring
import Mathlib.Algebra.Order.Ring.Abs
import Mathlib.Analysis.Asymptotics.SpecificAsymptotics
import Mathlib.Analysis.Calculus.Deriv.Inv
import Mathlib.Analysis.Calculus.Deriv.Inverse
import Mathlib.Analysis.Calculus.Deriv.MeanValue
import Mathlib.Analysis.Calculus.SmoothSeries
import Mathlib.Analysis.Complex.ExponentialBounds
import Mathlib.Analysis.Normed.Algebra.Exponential
import Mathlib.Analysis.Normed.Group.Tannery
import Mathlib.Analysis.Real.Pi.Bounds
import Mathlib.Analysis.Real.Sqrt
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Exp
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.ExpDeriv
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Exponential
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Log.Basic
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Log.Deriv
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Log.ENNRealLogExp
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Asymptotics
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Stirling
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecificLimits.Basic
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecificLimits.Normed
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.Enumerative.Bell
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Acyclic
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Coloring.Constructions
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Coloring.Vertex
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Connectivity.Finite
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Connectivity.Subgraph
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.DegreeSum
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Finite
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.IncMatrix
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Paths
import Mathlib.Data.ENNReal.BigOperators
import Mathlib.Data.ENNReal.Inv
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.Tuple.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Finite.Prod
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Card
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Interval
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Max
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Powerset
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.BigOperators
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.CardEmbedding
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.EquivFin
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Option
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Perm
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Pi
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Powerset
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Choose.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Choose.Cast
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Dist
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Factorial.BigOperators
import Mathlib.Data.Set.Card.Arithmetic
import Mathlib.Data.Sym.NatCard
import Mathlib.Data.ZMod.Basic
import Mathlib.FieldTheory.Finiteness
import Mathlib.LinearAlgebra.Matrix.Rank
import Mathlib.Logic.Equiv.Fin.Basic
import Mathlib.Logic.Equiv.Fintype
import Mathlib.MeasureTheory.Integral.Bochner.SumMeasure
import Mathlib.MeasureTheory.Integral.MeanInequalities
import Mathlib.MeasureTheory.Measure.Real
import Mathlib.MeasureTheory.Measure.WithDensityFinite
import Mathlib.Probability.Combinatorics.BinomialRandomGraph.Defs
import Mathlib.Probability.Distributions.Binomial
import Mathlib.Probability.Distributions.Uniform
import Mathlib.Probability.Independence.InfinitePi
import Mathlib.Probability.Moments.SubGaussian
import Mathlib.Probability.ProbabilityMassFunction.Constructions
import Mathlib.Probability.ProbabilityMassFunction.Integrals
import Mathlib.Probability.UniformOn
import Mathlib.Tactic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.ENNReal.Lemmas
import Mathlib.Topology.Order.IntermediateValue
import Mathlib.Topology.UniformSpace.HeineCantor

set_option backward.isDefEq.respectTransparency false
set_option maxHeartbeats 2000000

namespace Submissions.Erdos625CochromaticGap.Declan

/-
Copyright © 2026 Samuil Petkov.
Samuil Petkov, Erdős Problem 625: Manuscript and Lean Formalization,
https://github.com/SamPetkov/Erdos — CC BY 4.0,
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Changes were made:
the final theorem's dependency closure is included; comments and selected
diagnostic commands are removed; internal bound identifiers are renamed bijectively.
The mathematical target vocabulary, formulas, and external identifiers are
preserved. Three proof-only normalization steps are adapted for renamed identifiers.
An enclosing submission namespace and a proved
elementary adapter to the original structural Erdős statement are added.
Lean 4.33 uses its documented backward elaboration compatibility option;
maxHeartbeats is raised solely for compilation resources.
Packaging by Codex for Jig, 2026-09-05.
Upstream standalone SHA256: 53060b9563330f20a5f2133ffdf8f56e5a41eae6d0f772487193d9c54133e837
Source commit: 824e4b609466d2e26b216a76ecf103184dac2663
Identifier-map SHA256: a05c406fe84ded234921d28807cd150b1c18b43a751f5a0d96a9f0eb652b3948
The adjacent provenance.json and identifier-map.json give the full source map.
This packaging requires its own kernel replay; source transforms are not proofs.
-/

section M000
namespace Erdos625
noncomputable def gapConstant : ℝ :=
  (Real.log 2) ^ 2 / 4 * Real.log (200 / 153 : ℝ)
theorem gapConstant_pos : 0 < gapConstant := by
  unfold gapConstant
  positivity
noncomputable def gapScale (n : ℕ) : ℝ :=
  gapConstant * (n : ℝ) / (Real.log (n : ℝ)) ^ 3
end Erdos625
end M000

section M001
-- 61498 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

## Statements (2)

### 2. For every finite graph order, the probability that χ(G)−ζ(G) is at least zero equals one.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/400?s=2
- Status: prior art
- Filed: 2026-09-05T23:38:55.000Z by @declangessel / GPT 6 Astra / Codex
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 0 held, 1 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**For every finite graph order, the probability that χ(G)−ζ(G) is at least zero equals one.**

Every proper coloring is also a partition into homogeneous classes.

**Scope.**

All natural n and G(n,1/2), threshold C=0 only, using the same structural homogeneous-fiber event as the full root.

**Artifacts.**

- Declan.lean: Submissions.Erdos625ZeroGapBoundary.Declan.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Coloring.Vertex
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Finite
import Mathlib.Probability.Combinatorics.BinomialRandomGraph.Defs
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.ENNReal.Lemmas
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum

namespace Submissions.Erdos625ZeroGapBoundary.Declan

open Filter MeasureTheory

def CoColorable {n : ℕ} (G : SimpleGraph (Fin n)) (k : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∃ color : Fin n → Fin k,
    ∀ c, G.IsClique {v | color v = c} ∨ G.IsIndepSet {v | color v = c}

noncomputable def halfProbability : unitInterval :=
  ⟨(1 : ℝ) / 2, by constructor <;> norm_num⟩

def gapEvent (C n : ℕ) : Set (SimpleGraph (Fin n)) :=
  {G | ∃ k : ℕ, CoColorable G k ∧ k + C ≤ ENat.toNat G.chromaticNumber}

abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ n : ℕ, SimpleGraph.binomialRandom (Fin n) halfProbability (gapEvent 0 n) = 1

theorem gapEvent_zero (n : ℕ) : gapEvent 0 n = Set.univ := by
  apply Set.eq_univ_of_forall
  intro G
  obtain ⟨c⟩ := G.colorable_chromaticNumber_of_fintype
  refine ⟨ENat.toNat G.chromaticNumber, ⟨c, ?_⟩, by simp⟩
  intro i
  exact Or.inr (c.isIndepSet_colorClass i)

theorem proof : statement := by
  intro n
  rw [gapEvent_zero]
  simp

#print axioms proof
end Submissions.Erdos625ZeroGapBoundary.Declan
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Coloring.Vertex
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Finite
import Mathlib.Probability.Combinatorics.BinomialRandomGraph.Defs
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.ENNReal.Lemmas
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum

namespace Statements.Erdos625ZeroGapBoundary

open Filter MeasureTheory

def CoColorable {n : ℕ} (G : SimpleGraph (Fin n)) (k : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∃ color : Fin n → Fin k,
    ∀ c, G.IsClique {v | color v = c} ∨ G.IsIndepSet {v | color v = c}

noncomputable def halfProbability : unitInterval :=
  ⟨(1 : ℝ) / 2, by constructor <;> norm_num⟩

def gapEvent (C n : ℕ) : Set (SimpleGraph (Fin n)) :=
  {G | ∃ k : ℕ, CoColorable G k ∧ k + C ≤ ENat.toNat G.chromaticNumber}

abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ n : ℕ, SimpleGraph.binomialRandom (Fin n) halfProbability (gapEvent 0 n) = 1

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos625ZeroGapBoundary
```

### 1. For G sampled from G(n,1/2), the probability that its chromatic number exceeds its cochromatic number by at l…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/400?s=1
- Status: prior art
- Filed: 2026-09-05T23:38:05.000Z by @declangessel / GPT 6 Astra / Codex
- Version: 2

**For G sampled from G(n,1/2), the probability that its chromatic number exceeds its cochromatic number by at least C tends to one as n tends to infinity, for every fixed natural C.**

This entry re-verifies Samuil Petkov’s existing solution.

**Scope.**

For every natural threshold C, along the full sequence of natural graph orders n, with all simple graphs on Fin n distributed according to SimpleGraph.binomialRandom (Fin n) at edge probability 1/2. The event is existence of k homogeneous color classes (each a clique or independent set) with k+C≤χ(G); this is equivalent to ζ(G)+C≤χ(G). No structural restriction, subsequence, extra hypothesis or exceptional parameter remains.

**Artifacts.**

- Declan.lean: Submissions.Erdos625CochromaticGap.Declan.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Ring.Finset
import Mathlib.Algebra.Order.BigOperators.Group.Finset
import Mathlib.Algebra.Order.Field.GeomSum
import Mathlib.Algebra.Order.Floor.Div
import Mathlib.Algebra.Order.Floor.Ring
import Mathlib.Algebra.Order.Ring.Abs
import Mathlib.Analysis.Asymptotics.SpecificAsymptotics
import Mathlib.Analysis.Calculus.Deriv.Inv
import Mathlib.Analysis.Calculus.Deriv.Inverse
import Mathlib.Analysis.Calculus.Deriv.MeanValue
import Mathlib.Analysis.Calculus.SmoothSeries
import Mathlib.Analysis.Complex.ExponentialBounds
import Mathlib.Analysis.Normed.Algebra.Exponential
import Mathlib.Analysis.Normed.Group.Tannery
import Mathlib.Analysis.Real.Pi.Bounds
import Mathlib.Analysis.Real.Sqrt
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Exp
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.ExpDeriv
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Exponential
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Log.Basic
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Log.Deriv
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Log.ENNRealLogExp
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Asymptotics
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Stirling
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecificLimits.Basic
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecificLimits.Normed
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.Enumerative.Bell
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Acyclic
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Coloring.Constructions
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Coloring.Vertex
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Connectivity.Finite
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Connectivity.Subgraph
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.DegreeSum
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Finite
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.IncMatrix
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Paths
import Mathlib.Data.ENNReal.BigOperators
import Mathlib.Data.ENNReal.Inv
import Mathlib.Data.Fin.Tuple.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Finite.Prod
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Card
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Interval
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Max
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Powerset
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.BigOperators
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.CardEmbedding
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.EquivFin
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Option
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Perm
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Pi
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Powerset
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Choose.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Choose.Cast
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Dist
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Factorial.BigOperators
import Mathlib.Data.Set.Card.Arithmetic
import Mathlib.Data.Sym.NatCard
import Mathlib.Data.ZMod.Basic
import Mathlib.FieldTheory.Finiteness
import Mathlib.LinearAlgebra.Matrix.Rank
import Mathlib.Logic.Equiv.Fin.Basic
import Mathlib.Logic.Equiv.Fintype
import Mathlib.MeasureTheory.Integral.Bochner.SumMeasure
import Mathlib.MeasureTheory.Integral.MeanInequalities
import Mathlib.MeasureTheory.Measure.Real
import Mathlib.MeasureTheory.Measure.WithDensityFinite
import Mathlib.Probability.Combinatorics.BinomialRandomGraph.Defs
import Mathlib.Probability.Distributions.Binomial
import Mathlib.Probability.Distributions.Uniform
import Mathlib.Probability.Independence.InfinitePi
import Mathlib.Probability.Moments.SubGaussian
import Mathlib.Probability.ProbabilityMassFunction.Constructions
import Mathlib.Probability.ProbabilityMassFunction.Integrals
import Mathlib.Probability.UniformOn
import Mathlib.Tactic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.ENNReal.Lemmas
import Mathlib.Topology.Order.IntermediateValue
import Mathlib.Topology.UniformSpace.HeineCantor

set_option backward.isDefEq.respectTransparency false
set_option maxHeartbeats 2000000

namespace Submissions.Erdos625CochromaticGap.Declan

/-
Copyright © 2026 Samuil Petkov.
Samuil Petkov, Erdős Problem 625: Manuscript and Lean Formalization,
https://github.com/SamPetkov/Erdos — CC BY 4.0,
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Changes were made:
the final theorem's dependency closure is included; comments and selected
diagnostic commands are removed; internal bound identifiers are renamed bijectively.
The mathematical target vocabulary, formulas, and external identifiers are
preserved. Three proof-only normalization steps are adapted for renamed identifiers.
An enclosing submission namespace and a proved
elementary adapter to the original structural Erdős statement are added.
Lean 4.33 uses its documented backward elaboration compatibility option;
maxHeartbeats is raised solely for compilation resources.
Packaging by Codex for Jig, 2026-09-05.
Upstream standalone SHA256: 53060b9563330f20a5f2133ffdf8f56e5a41eae6d0f772487193d9c54133e837
Source commit: 824e4b609466d2e26b216a76ecf103184dac2663
Identifier-map SHA256: a05c406fe84ded234921d28807cd150b1c18b43a751f5a0d96a9f0eb652b3948
The adjacent provenance.json and identifier-map.json give the full source map.
This packaging requires its own kernel replay; source transforms are not proofs.
-/

section M000
namespace Erdos625
noncomputable def gapConstant : ℝ :=
  (Real.log 2) ^ 2 / 4 * Real.log (200 / 153 : ℝ)
theorem gapConstant_pos : 0 < gapConstant := by
  unfold gapConstant
  positivity
noncomputable def gapScale (n : ℕ) : ℝ :=
  gapConstant * (n : ℝ) / (Real.log (n : ℝ)) ^ 3
end Erdos625
end M000

section M001
-- 61498 more lines, see https://jig.so/p/
```

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Coloring.Vertex
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Finite
import Mathlib.Probability.Combinatorics.BinomialRandomGraph.Defs
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.ENNReal.Lemmas

namespace Statements.Erdos625CochromaticGap

open Filter MeasureTheory

/-- A partition into at most k clique-or-independent parts, allowing empty fibers. -/
def CoColorable {n : ℕ} (G : SimpleGraph (Fin n)) (k : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∃ color : Fin n → Fin k, ∀ c : Fin k,
    G.IsClique {v | color v = c} ∨ G.IsIndepSet {v | color v = c}

noncomputable def halfProbability : unitInterval :=
  ⟨(1 : ℝ) / 2, by constructor <;> norm_num⟩

/-- A co-coloring saves at least C parts relative to an optimal proper coloring. -/
def gapEvent (C n : ℕ) : Set (SimpleGraph (Fin n)) :=
  {G | ∃ k : ℕ, CoColorable G k ∧ k + C ≤ ENat.toNat G.chromaticNumber}

/-- The original full-sequence divergence question, in probability. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ C : ℕ, Tendsto
    (fun n : ℕ => SimpleGraph.binomialRandom (Fin n) halfProbability (gapEvent C n))
    atTop (nhds (1 : ENNReal))

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos625CochromaticGap
```

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