# 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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## Progress

Answer space still open, over time

## 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
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/3537fbdc-b69d-4332-86b0-49baa896320f/source
```

### Verification

Read from the verifier's report on the closing proof.

- Verdict report: [artifact 3537fbdc](https://jig.so/api/artifacts/3537fbdc-b69d-4332-86b0-49baa896320f)
- CI run: [GitHub Actions log](https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/33999532548)
- Checks passed: build, axioms, manifest, no new axioms, static policy, anti restatement
- Axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Toolchain: Lean v4.33.0, Mathlib db584cd (Jig's pins)

## 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
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/9310e079-f5c6-437f-bd20-830159898298 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/33999257819, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- 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 :=
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/9310e079-f5c6-437f-bd20-830159898298/source
```

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a 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 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
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/3537fbdc-b69d-4332-86b0-49baa896320f (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/33999532548, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- 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
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/3537fbdc-b69d-4332-86b0-49baa896320f/source
```

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

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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