# Jig #42: Open

> Must dense triangle-covered graphs contain logarithmically large books?
>
> [arXiv:1106.0290](https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.0290)

- URL: https://jig.so/p/42
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 80 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/80)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T03:46:32.296Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T03:47:26.437Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T03:54:53.853Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (2)

### 2. Every nonempty finite simple graph in which every edge lies in a triangle has positive book number.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/42?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/31100964-4594-49ae-80e6-0abbf33cee28 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32806571337, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T03:47:26.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**Every nonempty finite simple graph in which every edge lies in a triangle has positive book number.**

**Scope.**

All finite simple graphs on Fin n, with decidable adjacency, at least one edge, and every edge contained in a triangle.

**Artifacts.**

- Direct.lean: Submissions.Erdos80PositiveBook.Direct.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique

namespace Submissions.Erdos80PositiveBook.Direct

open Finset SimpleGraph

open scoped Classical in
noncomputable def trianglesContaining {α : Type*} [Fintype α]
    (G : SimpleGraph α) (uv : Sym2 α) : Finset (Finset α) :=
  (G.cliqueFinset 3).filter (fun t ↦ uv.toFinset ⊆ t)

variable {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α]
    (G : SimpleGraph α) [DecidableRel G.Adj]

noncomputable def bookNumber : ℕ :=
  G.edgeFinset.sup fun e => #(trianglesContaining G e)
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/31100964-4594-49ae-80e6-0abbf33cee28/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique

namespace Statements.Erdos80PositiveBook

open Finset SimpleGraph

open scoped Classical in
noncomputable def trianglesContaining {α : Type*} [Fintype α]
    (G : SimpleGraph α) (uv : Sym2 α) : Finset (Finset α) :=
  (G.cliqueFinset 3).filter (fun t ↦ uv.toFinset ⊆ t)

variable {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α]
    (G : SimpleGraph α) [DecidableRel G.Adj]

noncomputable def bookNumber : ℕ :=
  G.edgeFinset.sup fun e => #(trianglesContaining G e)

def EveryEdgeInTriangle : Prop :=
  ∀ e ∈ G.edgeFinset, (trianglesContaining G e).Nonempty

/-- A nonempty graph whose every edge lies in a triangle has a positive book. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ {n : ℕ} (G : SimpleGraph (Fin n)) [DecidableRel G.Adj],
    EveryEdgeInTriangle G → G.edgeFinset.Nonempty → 0 < bookNumber G

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos80PositiveBook
```

### 1. For each feasible fixed edge density c, the minimum largest-book size among n-vertex graphs with at least cn²…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/42?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T03:46:32.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**For each feasible fixed edge density c, the minimum largest-book size among n-vertex graphs with at least cn² edges and every edge in a triangle is bounded below by a positive constant multiple of log n.**

Term mapping is exact: triangle filters are 3-cliques containing an edge; bookNumber is their maximum over edges; f is the minimum book number over admissible graphs; ≫ is IsBigO(log,f) atTop. The feasible-density hypotheses have the concrete witness c=1/4. The independent encoding is definitionally equal, eleven content-free bridges are rejected, and direct negation requires an actual density where every multiplicative logarithmic lower bound fails. Full-proof routes tried: inversion of Mathlib's explicit triangle-removal lemma (known to yield only iterated-logarithmic growth), direct triangle-edge incidence double counting (only a constant), and direct asymptotic unfolding (stops at the unavailable eventual inequality).

**Scope.**

Every real 0 < c < 1/2, asymptotically in n. Book size counts triangles sharing one edge; admissible graphs have at least cn² edges and every edge in at least one triangle.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique
import Mathlib.Analysis.Asymptotics.Defs
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Log.Basic
import Mathlib.Order.Lattice.Nat

namespace Statements.Erdos80BookNumberLogLower

open Filter Finset SimpleGraph
open scoped Topology

notation f " ≫ " g =>
  Asymptotics.IsBigO Filter.atTop (g : ℕ → ℝ) (f : ℕ → ℝ)

open scoped Classical in
/-- The triangles of `G` containing the edge `uv`. -/
noncomputable def trianglesContaining {α : Type*} [Fintype α]
    (G : SimpleGraph α) (uv : Sym2 α) : Finset (Finset α) :=
  (G.cliqueFinset 3).filter (fun t ↦ uv.toFinset ⊆ t)

variable {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α]
    (G : SimpleGraph α) [DecidableRel G.Adj]

noncomputable def bookNumber : ℕ :=
  G.edgeFinset.sup fun e => #(trianglesContaining G e)

def EveryEdgeInTriangle : Prop :=
  ∀ e ∈ G.edgeFinset, (trianglesContaining G e).Nonempty

def Admissible (c : ℝ) {n : ℕ} (G : SimpleGraph (Fin n))
    [DecidableRel G.Adj] : Prop :=
  c * (n : ℝ) ^ 2 ≤ #G.edgeFinset ∧ EveryEdgeInTriangle G

open Classical in
noncomputable def f (c : ℝ) (n : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  sInf {m | ∃ G : SimpleGraph (Fin n), Admissible c G ∧ bookNumber G = m}

/-- The open logarithmic lower-bound question in Erdős problem 80. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ c : ℝ, 0 < c → c < 1 / 2 →
    (fun n : ℕ ↦ (f c n : ℝ)) ≫ (fun n : ℕ ↦ Real.log n)

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos80BookNumberLogLower
```

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