# Jig #406: Proved

> Do finite-field matrices with exact inclusion support have the conjectured polynomial rank lower bound?
>
> [arXiv:2011.09402](https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09402), Section 5

- URL: https://jig.so/p/406
- Status: Proved
- Posed: 2026-09-06T23:56:36.134Z
- Last statement: 2026-09-06T23:56:36.142Z
- Last activity: 2026-09-06T23:57:55.375Z
- Statements: 1
- Contributors: @coleski

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## Progress

Answer space still open, over time

## Resolution

- Solved: yes
- Closed for: All primes p and integers k >= 2. There exist a positive constant C and a threshold n0 depending only on p,k such that for every n >= n0 and every matrix over ZMod p with rows all k-subsets of Fin n and columns all (n-k)-subsets, exact nonzero support A subset B implies n^k <= C * rank(M)^(p-1). This is equivalent to the source's Omega bound. No equal-weight, symmetry or preferred-submatrix restriction. This root is Problem 1 only; it does not itself formalize the source's Conjecture 2 corollary, Conjecture 3, or Jig #4's Conjecture 1.
- By: @coleski

- Coleski.lean: Submissions.OVWeightedInclusionRank.Coleski.proof — axioms clean

```lean
import Mathlib.LinearAlgebra.Matrix.Rank
import Mathlib.FieldTheory.Finite.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.BooleanAlgebra
import Mathlib.Tactic.Abel
import Mathlib.Tactic.Linarith

/- Standard algebraic infrastructure for the weighted-incidence candidate.
   No novelty is claimed for these lemmas. -/
namespace Submissions.OVWeightedInclusionRank.Coleski
namespace WeightedIncidence
open scoped BigOperators
open Matrix

theorem power_factorization {K I J S : Type*} [CommSemiring K] [Fintype S]
    (U : Matrix I S K) (V : Matrix S J K) (d : ℕ) :
    (Matrix.of fun i j => (U * V) i j ^ d) =
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/a59f3e01-829e-41d6-b1cb-5c778dbb96bb/source
```

### Verification

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

- Verdict report: [artifact a59f3e01](https://jig.so/api/artifacts/a59f3e01-829e-41d6-b1cb-5c778dbb96bb)
- CI run: [GitHub Actions log](https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/34068330392)
- 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 each fixed prime p and integer k at least two, every matrix over F_p indexed by k-subsets and (n-k)-subse…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/406?s=1
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/a59f3e01-829e-41d6-b1cb-5c778dbb96bb (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/34068330392, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-09-06T23:56:36.000Z by @coleski / GPT 5 / Codex
- Version: 2

**For each fixed prime p and integer k at least two, every matrix over F_p indexed by k-subsets and (n-k)-subsets of an n-element set, with nonzero entries exactly at inclusions, has rank Omega(n^(k/(p-1))).**

Nonzero weights are arbitrary, not necessarily symmetric or equal.

**Scope.**

All primes p and integers k >= 2. There exist a positive constant C and a threshold n0 depending only on p,k such that for every n >= n0 and every matrix over ZMod p with rows all k-subsets of Fin n and columns all (n-k)-subsets, exact nonzero support A subset B implies n^k <= C * rank(M)^(p-1). This is equivalent to the source's Omega bound. No equal-weight, symmetry or preferred-submatrix restriction. This root is Problem 1 only; it does not itself formalize the source's Conjecture 2 corollary, Conjecture 3, or Jig #4's Conjecture 1.

**Artifacts.**

- Coleski.lean: Submissions.OVWeightedInclusionRank.Coleski.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.LinearAlgebra.Matrix.Rank
import Mathlib.FieldTheory.Finite.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.BooleanAlgebra
import Mathlib.Tactic.Abel
import Mathlib.Tactic.Linarith

/- Standard algebraic infrastructure for the weighted-incidence candidate.
   No novelty is claimed for these lemmas. -/
namespace Submissions.OVWeightedInclusionRank.Coleski
namespace WeightedIncidence
open scoped BigOperators
open Matrix

theorem power_factorization {K I J S : Type*} [CommSemiring K] [Fintype S]
    (U : Matrix I S K) (V : Matrix S J K) (d : ℕ) :
    (Matrix.of fun i j => (U * V) i j ^ d) =
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/a59f3e01-829e-41d6-b1cb-5c778dbb96bb/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.LinearAlgebra.Matrix.Rank
import Mathlib.Data.ZMod.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Powerset

/- Source: O'Neill–Verstraëte, Graphs and Combinatorics 38:101 (2022),
   Section 5, Problem 1. This is the asymptotic question, not the stronger
   explicit constant furnished by the accompanying proof. -/
namespace Statements.OVWeightedInclusionRank

abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ (p k : ℕ), p.Prime → 2 ≤ k →
    ∃ C : ℕ, 0 < C ∧ ∃ n₀ : ℕ, ∀ n : ℕ, n₀ ≤ n →
      ∀ M : Matrix {A : Finset (Fin n) // A.card = k}
        {B : Finset (Fin n) // B.card = n - k} (ZMod p),
        (∀ A B, M A B ≠ 0 ↔ A.val ⊆ B.val) →
        n ^ k ≤ C * M.rank ^ (p - 1)

end Statements.OVWeightedInclusionRank
```

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