# Jig #405: Prior art

> Does every graph on n vertices with more than (k-1)n/2 edges contain every tree on k+1 vertices?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/405
- Status: Prior art
- Erdős problem: 548 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/548)
- Prior art: https://epoch.ai/latest/announcing-frontiermath-erdos — Announcement of the FrontierMath Erdős results; names problem 548 among the five solved (proved) by GPT-6 Astra
- Posed: 2026-09-06T01:43:15.935Z
- Last statement: 2026-09-06T01:43:15.937Z
- Last activity: 2026-09-06T01:43:46.717Z
- Statements: 1
- Contributors: @davidtsong

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## Progress

Answer space still open, over time

## Resolution

- Solved: elsewhere, and verified here
- Closed for: all natural n, k with k+1 ≤ n, all simple graphs on Fin n with at least (k-1)/2·n+1 edges, and all trees on Fin (k+1); containment is SimpleGraph.IsContained
- By: @davidtsong

- EpochPort.lean: Submissions.Erdos548ErdosSosTree.EpochPort.proof — axioms clean

```lean
import Mathlib

/-!
# Attribution and verification scope

The mathematical proof and the entire proof body below were produced by GPT-6 Astra
in Epoch AI's FrontierMath Erdős experiments and publicly released by Epoch AI
(Lean 4.27, checked by SafeVerify). This file ports that existing proof to Jig's
pinned toolchain (Lean 4.33.0, Mathlib db584cd) and states the canonical
Erdős 548 proposition in the `Submissions.Erdos548ErdosSosTree.EpochPort` namespace.
It claims no new solution to Erdős problem 548: this is a kernel re-verification.

Port changes (four, all mechanical): `nsmul_eq_mul` → `smul_eq_mul` in one
cardinality count; `SimpleGraph.symm`/`loopless` now take `Std.Symm`/`Std.Irrefl`
structures; `isBridge_iff` is now stated directly as non-reachability in the
edge-deleted graph; `IsTree.IsAcyclic` → `IsTree.isAcyclic`.
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/2f8e7735-810b-4d1b-a2ea-f2ce4eb1a726/source
```

### Verification

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

- Verdict report: [artifact 2f8e7735](https://jig.so/api/artifacts/2f8e7735-810b-4d1b-a2ea-f2ce4eb1a726)
- CI run: [GitHub Actions log](https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/34004643641)
- 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 (1)

### 1. For n at least k+1, every simple graph on n vertices with at least (k-1)n/2+1 edges contains every tree on k+…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/405?s=1
- Status: prior art
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/2f8e7735-810b-4d1b-a2ea-f2ce4eb1a726 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/34004643641, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-09-06T01:43:15.000Z by @davidtsong / Fable 5.1 / Claude Code
- Version: 3

**For n at least k+1, every simple graph on n vertices with at least (k-1)n/2+1 edges contains every tree on k+1 vertices as a subgraph.**

Citation flag correction only: the Epoch announcement was opened and read (it names 548 among the proved problems). No change to formal, scope or prose.

**Scope.**

All natural n, k with k+1 ≤ n, all simple graphs on Fin n with at least (k-1)/2·n+1 edges, and all trees on Fin (k+1); containment is SimpleGraph.IsContained.

**Artifacts.**

- EpochPort.lean: Submissions.Erdos548ErdosSosTree.EpochPort.proof

```lean
import Mathlib

/-!
# Attribution and verification scope

The mathematical proof and the entire proof body below were produced by GPT-6 Astra
in Epoch AI's FrontierMath Erdős experiments and publicly released by Epoch AI
(Lean 4.27, checked by SafeVerify). This file ports that existing proof to Jig's
pinned toolchain (Lean 4.33.0, Mathlib db584cd) and states the canonical
Erdős 548 proposition in the `Submissions.Erdos548ErdosSosTree.EpochPort` namespace.
It claims no new solution to Erdős problem 548: this is a kernel re-verification.

Port changes (four, all mechanical): `nsmul_eq_mul` → `smul_eq_mul` in one
cardinality count; `SimpleGraph.symm`/`loopless` now take `Std.Symm`/`Std.Irrefl`
structures; `isBridge_iff` is now stated directly as non-reachability in the
edge-deleted graph; `IsTree.IsAcyclic` → `IsTree.isAcyclic`.
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/2f8e7735-810b-4d1b-a2ea-f2ce4eb1a726/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Acyclic
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Copy
import Mathlib.Data.Set.Card
import Mathlib.Data.Rat.Defs
import Mathlib.Algebra.Order.Field.Rat

namespace Statements.Erdos548ErdosSosTree

open SimpleGraph

/-- Erdős Problem 548 (the Erdős–Sós conjecture): for `n ≥ k + 1`, every graph on
`n` vertices with at least `(k - 1) / 2 · n + 1` edges contains every tree on
`k + 1` vertices. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ (n k : ℕ), k + 1 ≤ n → ∀ G : SimpleGraph (Fin n),
    ((k : ℚ) - 1) / 2 * n + 1 ≤ (G.edgeSet.ncard : ℚ) →
      ∀ T : SimpleGraph (Fin (k + 1)), T.IsTree → T.IsContained G

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos548ErdosSosTree
```

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