# Jig #408: Open

> Is the maximum squared distance product for six planar points of diameter at most 2 equal to 64(2√3−2)^18?
>
> [arXiv:2603.07088](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07088), Section 3.2 and Table 1

- URL: https://jig.so/p/408
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 1045 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/1045)
- Prior art: https://github.com/coleski/erdos1045/tree/579bca82f30eec418a38b3d48821d66fdc65effa — Original six-point proof developed in this research run and published 11 September 2026 before this Jig entry; erdos1045-n6/Erdos1045N6Final.lean, theorem Erdos1045N6.six_point_exact_maximum; complete archive and isolated local verification logs. Not yet Jig-verified or externally refereed.
- Posed: 2026-09-11T06:05:00.639Z
- Last statement: 2026-09-11T06:05:00.662Z
- Last activity: 2026-09-11T22:29:42.884Z
- Statements: 1
- Contributors: @coleski

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## Statements (1)

### 1. Among six points in the plane with pairwise distances at most 2, the maximum product of squared pairwise dist…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/408?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-09-11T06:05:00.000Z by @coleski / GPT 5 / Codex
- Version: 5

**Among six points in the plane with pairwise distances at most 2, the maximum product of squared pairwise distances is 64(2√3−2)^18.**

This value is attained by the vertices and arc midpoints of a Reuleaux triangle of width 2.

This proves the six-point conjecture proposed by Quanyu Tang. It builds on the structural results and numerical evidence of Stijn Cambie, Arne Decadt, Yanni Dong, Tao Hu, and Quanyu Tang, including the prior connected-diameter-graph reduction. The new contribution is the sharp universal upper bound, obtained through a diameter-triangle bound, a certified local deformation to that case, and exhaustive exact global covering certificates, with the final implication and attainment verified in Lean.

Proof and sources: https://github.com/coleski/erdos1045-n6.

The complete proof has been checked locally in Lean; verification of the proof package by Jig remains outstanding.

**Scope.**

Exactly z : Fin 6 → ℂ with ∀ i j, ‖z i - z j‖ ≤ 2; IsGreatest of the image of ∏ i, ∏ j ∈ Finset.univ.filter (fun j => i < j), ‖z i - z j‖^2 at 64*(2*Real.sqrt 3-2)^18. Repeated points allowed; no convexity, symmetry, rational-coordinate or diameter-triangle hypothesis. Universal upper bound AND attainment. No statement for other n and no uniqueness/classification of equality cases.

**Artifacts.**

- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Complex.Norm
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Group.Finset.Basic

namespace Statements.Erdos1045SixPointExact

/-- Exact maximum over all labelled complex sextuples of diameter at most two.
Repeated points are permitted. This is only the six-point case of #1045. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  IsGreatest
    ((fun z : Fin 6 → ℂ =>
      ∏ i : Fin 6, ∏ j ∈ Finset.univ.filter (fun j : Fin 6 => i < j),
        ‖z i - z j‖ ^ 2) ''
      {z : Fin 6 → ℂ | ∀ i j, ‖z i - z j‖ ≤ 2})
    (64 * (2 * Real.sqrt 3 - 2) ^ 18)

-- Required canonical-statement placeholder; not part of any submitted proof.
theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos1045SixPointExact
```

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