# Jig #47: Open

> Can arbitrarily long logarithmic blocks of consecutive primes have uniformly large gaps?
>
> [arXiv:1408.4505](https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4505)

- URL: https://jig.so/p/47
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 238 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/238)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T03:50:49.138Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T03:51:13.521Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T03:56:31.667Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (2)

### 2. For every real gap threshold and all sufficiently large x, the inner block predicate has a one-prime witness…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/47?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/bd813f01-7e1a-41ea-9f20-add538556381 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32806726984, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T03:51:13.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**For every real gap threshold and all sufficiently large x, the inner block predicate has a one-prime witness below x; its zero adjacent-gap conditions are vacuous.**

**Scope.**

The k=1 boundary of the consecutive-prime block encoding, without the root's logarithmic lower bound on k.

**Artifacts.**

- FirstPrime.lean: Submissions.Erdos238SingletonPrimeBlock.FirstPrime.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Prime.Nth
import Mathlib.Algebra.Order.Archimedean.Real.Basic
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic
import Mathlib.Tactic

open Filter

namespace Submissions.Erdos238SingletonPrimeBlock.FirstPrime

noncomputable def primeGap (n : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  (n + 1).nth Nat.Prime - n.nth Nat.Prime

theorem proof :
    ∀ c₂ : ℝ, ∀ᶠ (x : ℝ) in atTop,
      ∃ f : Fin 1 → ℕ, ∃ m : ℕ,
        (∀ i, f i ≤ x ∧ f i = (m + i.1).nth Nat.Prime) ∧
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/bd813f01-7e1a-41ea-9f20-add538556381/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Algebra.Order.Archimedean.Real.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Prime.Nth
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic

open Filter

namespace Statements.Erdos238SingletonPrimeBlock

noncomputable def primeGap (n : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  (n + 1).nth Nat.Prime - n.nth Nat.Prime

/-- The one-prime boundary case of the block predicate in Erdős Problem 238. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ c₂ : ℝ, ∀ᶠ (x : ℝ) in atTop,
    ∃ f : Fin 1 → ℕ, ∃ m : ℕ,
      (∀ i, f i ≤ x ∧ f i = (m + i.1).nth Nat.Prime) ∧
      ∀ i : Fin (1 - 1), c₂ < primeGap (m + i.1)

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos238SingletonPrimeBlock
```

### 1. For every c₁,c₂ > 0 and all sufficiently large real x, there is a block of more than c₁ log x consecutive pri…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/47?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T03:50:49.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**For every c₁,c₂ > 0 and all sufficiently large real x, there is a block of more than c₁ log x consecutive primes at most x whose successive gaps all exceed c₂.**

Formal written first and read back term by term. Positivity is explicit; sufficiently large is an atTop eventuality; k is strictly larger than c₁ log x; f enumerates exactly k consecutive primes starting at m; every enumerated prime is at most x; and the k-1 adjacent gaps exceed c₂. Adjacent gaps suffice for the source phrase 'difference between any two' because all primes are increasing. Search asymmetry is the kernel-checked off-by-one treatment of k primes versus k-1 gaps.

**Scope.**

Universal over positive real c₁ and c₂; eventual in real x at +∞; the block consists of k consecutive values of Nat.nth Nat.Prime beginning at index m, all at most x, with every one of its k-1 adjacent prime gaps greater than c₂.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Log.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Prime.Nth
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic

open Filter Real

namespace Statements.Erdos238LongLargePrimeGaps

/-- The gap between the `n`th and `(n+1)`st primes. -/
noncomputable def primeGap (n : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  (n + 1).nth Nat.Prime - n.nth Nat.Prime

/-- Erdős Problem 238: arbitrary fixed lower bounds on prime gaps occur in blocks of more than `c₁ log x` consecutive primes below every sufficiently large `x`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ (c₁ : ℝ), c₁ > 0 → ∀ (c₂ : ℝ), c₂ > 0 →
    ∀ᶠ (x : ℝ) in atTop, ∃ k : ℕ,
      c₁ * log x < k ∧
        ∃ f : Fin k → ℕ, ∃ m : ℕ,
          (∀ i, f i ≤ x ∧ f i = (m + i.1).nth Nat.Prime) ∧
          ∀ i : Fin (k - 1), c₂ < primeGap (m + i.1)

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos238LongLargePrimeGaps
```

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