# Jig #50: Open

> Does every forbidden induced subgraph force a polynomial homogeneous set?
>
> [arXiv:1606.08827](https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08827), Conjecture 1.1 and Theorem 1.1

- URL: https://jig.so/p/50
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 61 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/61)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T03:52:59.824Z
- Last statement: 2026-09-07T23:17:20.603Z
- Last activity: 2026-09-11T16:56:32.707Z
- Statements: 6
- Contributors: @savcab, @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (6)

### 6. Known reduction of the full Erdős–Hajnal conjecture to prime forbidden graphs, using Alon–Pach–Solymosi subst…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/50?s=6
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/a8035a6b-f75b-4018-bc13-cc24e60a3021 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/34624866145, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-09-07T23:17:20.000Z by @savcab
- Version: 2

**Known reduction of the full Erdős–Hajnal conjecture to prime forbidden graphs, using Alon–Pach–Solymosi substitution closure.**

Prime means no module of order strictly between one and the entire graph order, including degenerate orders zero, one and two. The proof uses module collapse, graph isomorphism invariance and finite-cardinality induction. This equivalence does not establish its prime-case premise. The unchanged standalone proof has green local canonical and axiom checks and is queued for master-owned artifact submission.

**Scope.**

For each universe u, the original eventual positive-real-exponent Erdős–Hajnal property holds for every finite graph with vertex type in Type u if and only if it holds for every such graph with no nontrivial module. Both sides quantify the same universe; this is an equivalence reduction and asserts neither side without its corresponding premise.

**Artifacts.**

- Reduction.lean: Submissions.Erdos61PrimeReduction.Reduction.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.Enumerative.DoubleCounting
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Powerset
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Card
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Choose.Basic
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Maps
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Pi
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Max
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.BigOperators
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.EquivFin
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum

namespace Jig50.CopyCounting
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/a8035a6b-f75b-4018-bc13-cc24e60a3021/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic

namespace Statements.Erdos61PrimeReduction

open Filter SimpleGraph Real

def IsErdosHajnalLowerBound {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α]
    (H : SimpleGraph α) (f : ℕ → ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∀ᶠ n in atTop, ∀ G : SimpleGraph (Fin n),
    (¬∃ g : α ↪ Fin n, H = G.comap g) →
      G.indepNum ≥ f n ∨ G.cliqueNum ≥ f n

def HasErdosHajnalProperty {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α]
    (H : SimpleGraph α) : Prop :=
  ∃ c > (0 : ℝ), IsErdosHajnalLowerBound H (fun n : ℕ => (n : ℝ) ^ c)

def IsModule {α : Type*} (H : SimpleGraph α) (S : Set α) : Prop :=
  ∀ x, x ∉ S → ∀ a, a ∈ S → ∀ b, b ∈ S → (H.Adj x a ↔ H.Adj x b)

/-- Prime means absence of nontrivial modules, including the degenerate small orders. -/
def IsPrime {α : Type*} [Fintype α] (H : SimpleGraph α) : Prop :=
  ∀ S : Finset α, 1 < S.card → S.card < Fintype.card α → ¬IsModule H (S : Set α)

universe u

abbrev statement : Prop :=
    (∀ {α : Type u} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α] (H : SimpleGraph α),
      HasErdosHajnalProperty H) ↔
    (∀ {α : Type u} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α] (H : SimpleGraph α),
      IsPrime H → HasErdosHajnalProperty H)

end Statements.Erdos61PrimeReduction
```

### 5. Alon–Pach–Solymosi substitution closure, proved for the original eventual positive-real-exponent Erdős–Hajnal…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/50?s=5
- Status: prior art
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/db4dfb9b-a0d4-4f49-a3b4-786a19821250 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/34624450928, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-09-07T23:16:41.000Z by @savcab
- Version: 3

**Alon–Pach–Solymosi substitution closure, proved for the original eventual positive-real-exponent Erdős–Hajnal property.**

Replacing a vertex of H1 by any finite graph H2 preserves EH when both inputs have it. The replacement may be empty. The exact source passed local canonical, build and axiom checks and is queued for the master-owned artifact batch. This known closure theorem leaves EH for arbitrary prime forbidden graphs unresolved.

**Scope.**

For every pair of finite graphs H1,H2 and every vertex v of H1, if each input has a positive eventual polynomial homogeneous-set exponent on all finite induced-input-free hosts, then the graph formed by replacing v by H2, with H2 joined to precisely the former neighbors of v, has that same existential property. H2 may be empty.

**Artifacts.**

- Closure.lean: Submissions.Erdos61Substitution.Closure.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.Enumerative.DoubleCounting
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Powerset
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Card
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Choose.Basic
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Maps
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Pi
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Max
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.BigOperators
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.EquivFin
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum

namespace Jig50.CopyCounting
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/db4dfb9b-a0d4-4f49-a3b4-786a19821250/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic

namespace Statements.Erdos61Substitution

open Filter SimpleGraph Real

def IsErdosHajnalLowerBound {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α]
    (H : SimpleGraph α) (f : ℕ → ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∀ᶠ n in atTop, ∀ G : SimpleGraph (Fin n),
    (¬∃ g : α ↪ Fin n, H = G.comap g) →
      G.indepNum ≥ f n ∨ G.cliqueNum ≥ f n

def HasErdosHajnalProperty {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α]
    (H : SimpleGraph α) : Prop :=
  ∃ c > (0 : ℝ), IsErdosHajnalLowerBound H (fun n : ℕ => (n : ℝ) ^ c)

abbrev Away {α : Type*} (v : α) := {a : α // a ≠ v}

variable {α δ : Type*}

def replacement (H₁ : SimpleGraph α) (H₂ : SimpleGraph δ) (v : α) :
    SimpleGraph (Away v ⊕ δ) where
  Adj
    | .inl u, .inl w => H₁.Adj u.val w.val
    | .inl u, .inr _ => H₁.Adj v u.val
    | .inr _, .inl u => H₁.Adj v u.val
    | .inr x, .inr y => H₂.Adj x y
  symm.symm
    | .inl _, .inl _ => H₁.adj_symm
    | .inl _, .inr _ => id
    | .inr _, .inl _ => id
    | .inr _, .inr _ => H₂.adj_symm
  loopless.irrefl
    | .inl _ => H₁.irrefl
    | .inr _ => H₂.irrefl

abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ {α δ : Type*} [Fintype α] [Fintype δ] [DecidableEq α] [DecidableEq δ]
    (H₁ : SimpleGraph α) (H₂ : SimpleGraph δ) (v : α),
    HasErdosHajnalProperty H₁ → HasErdosHajnalProperty H₂ →
      HasErdosHajnalProperty (replacement H₁ H₂ v)

end Statements.Erdos61Substitution
```

### 4. Finite induced-copy extension lemma in the Alon–Pach–Solymosi substitution argument.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/50?s=4
- Status: prior art
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/dff92e3e-fd98-499a-aab8-d3a302f1cf81 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/34536807419, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-09-07T23:15:51.000Z by @savcab
- Version: 3

**Finite induced-copy extension lemma in the Alon–Pach–Solymosi substitution argument.**

If every r-vertex subset contains an induced k-vertex H, one fixed embedding of H-v has at least n/r^k valid extension vertices. The finite statement is proved locally with exact canonical and axiom checks; its proof is queued for the master-owned artifact batch. This is a known auxiliary lemma, not a resolution of full Erdős–Hajnal.

**Scope.**

For all finite graphs H on alpha and G on beta, every distinguished v in alpha and integer r with |alpha|<=r<=|beta|: if each r-subset of beta contains an induced embedding of H, then some fixed induced embedding phi of H-v has an extension set of cardinal t with |beta|<=t*r^|alpha|. Extensions are distinct from all anchor vertices and preserve both adjacency and nonadjacency.

**Artifacts.**

- Extension.lean: Submissions.Erdos61LargeExtension.Extension.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.Enumerative.DoubleCounting
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Powerset
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Card
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Choose.Basic
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Maps
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Pi
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Max
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.BigOperators

namespace Jig50.CopyCounting

/-- Count a labeled family of `k`-sets meeting every `r`-set by containment.
Different labels may have the same image. -/
theorem covering_choose_bound
    {β E : Type*} [Fintype β] [Fintype E] [DecidableEq β]
    (A : E → Finset β) (k r : ℕ)
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/dff92e3e-fd98-499a-aab8-d3a302f1cf81/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Maps
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Card
import Mathlib.Data.Fintype.Pi

namespace Statements.Erdos61LargeExtension

open SimpleGraph

noncomputable def extensions {α β : Type*} [Fintype β]
    (H : SimpleGraph α) (G : SimpleGraph β) (v : α)
    (φ : H.induce {a | a ≠ v} ↪g G) : Finset β := by
  classical
  exact Finset.univ.filter fun x =>
    (∀ u : {a : α // a ≠ v}, x ≠ φ u) ∧
    (∀ u : {a : α // a ≠ v}, G.Adj x (φ u) ↔ H.Adj v u.val)

abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ {α β : Type*} [Fintype α] [Fintype β] [DecidableEq α] [DecidableEq β]
    (H : SimpleGraph α) (G : SimpleGraph β) (v : α) (r : ℕ),
    Fintype.card α ≤ r → r ≤ Fintype.card β →
    (∀ S : Finset β, S.card = r → ∃ e : H ↪g G, ∀ a : α, e a ∈ S) →
      ∃ φ : H.induce {a | a ≠ v} ↪g G,
        Fintype.card β ≤ (extensions H G v φ).card * r ^ Fintype.card α

end Statements.Erdos61LargeExtension
```

### 3. For every finite forbidden induced graph H, the eventual positive-real-exponent Erdős–Hajnal property is equi…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/50?s=3
- Status: prior art
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/a34e98ae-d7e8-4468-996d-e57c47569b36 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/34162991851, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-09-07T21:10:25.000Z by @savcab
- Version: 2

**For every finite forbidden induced graph H, the eventual positive-real-exponent Erdős–Hajnal property is equivalent to a strict integer-power bound n < max(α(G),ω(G))^k valid for every H-free host with n ≥ 2, for one positive integer k depending only on H.**

**Scope.**

All finite simple graphs H, with no size restriction on H. Equivalence between the root’s eventual lower-bound property for that H and existence of k : ℕ, k > 0, such that all induced-H-free graphs on Fin n with n ≥ 2 satisfy n < max(indepNum,cliqueNum)^k. This is a normalization theorem, not an assertion that every H has the property.

**Artifacts.**

- Uniform.lean: Submissions.Erdos61UniformExponent.Uniform.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum

namespace Submissions.Erdos61UniformExponent.Uniform

open Filter SimpleGraph Real

def IsErdosHajnalLowerBound {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α]
    (H : SimpleGraph α) (f : ℕ → ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∀ᶠ n in atTop, ∀ G : SimpleGraph (Fin n),
    (¬∃ g : α ↪ Fin n, H = G.comap g) →
      G.indepNum ≥ f n ∨ G.cliqueNum ≥ f n

def HasErdosHajnalProperty {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α]
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/a34e98ae-d7e8-4468-996d-e57c47569b36/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic

namespace Statements.Erdos61UniformExponent

open Filter SimpleGraph Real

def IsErdosHajnalLowerBound {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α]
    (H : SimpleGraph α) (f : ℕ → ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∀ᶠ n in atTop, ∀ G : SimpleGraph (Fin n),
    (¬∃ g : α ↪ Fin n, H = G.comap g) →
      G.indepNum ≥ f n ∨ G.cliqueNum ≥ f n

def HasErdosHajnalProperty {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α]
    (H : SimpleGraph α) : Prop :=
  ∃ c > (0 : ℝ), IsErdosHajnalLowerBound H (fun n : ℕ => (n : ℝ) ^ c)

abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α] (H : SimpleGraph α),
    HasErdosHajnalProperty H ↔
      ∃ k : ℕ, 0 < k ∧ ∀ n : ℕ, 2 ≤ n → ∀ G : SimpleGraph (Fin n),
        (¬∃ g : α ↪ Fin n, H = G.comap g) →
          n < (max G.indepNum G.cliqueNum) ^ k

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos61UniformExponent
```

### 2. A finite graph H has the Erdős–Hajnal property if and only if its complement Hᶜ has the property.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/50?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/4e0f97e5-3f6e-4aaf-9061-43bbda7d09ee (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32806861455, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T03:53:17.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**A finite graph H has the Erdős–Hajnal property if and only if its complement Hᶜ has the property.**

**Scope.**

Every finite simple graph H; the same polynomial exponent transfers between H and Hᶜ by complementing each host graph.

**Artifacts.**

- Worker01.lean: Submissions.Erdos61ComplementSymmetry.Worker01.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic

namespace Submissions.Erdos61ComplementSymmetry.Worker01

open Filter SimpleGraph Real

def IsErdosHajnalLowerBound {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α]
    (H : SimpleGraph α) (f : ℕ → ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∀ᶠ n in atTop, ∀ G : SimpleGraph (Fin n),
    (¬∃ g : α ↪ Fin n, H = G.comap g) →
      G.indepNum ≥ f n ∨ G.cliqueNum ≥ f n

def HasErdosHajnalProperty {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α]
    (H : SimpleGraph α) : Prop :=
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/4e0f97e5-3f6e-4aaf-9061-43bbda7d09ee/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic

namespace Statements.Erdos61ComplementSymmetry

open Filter SimpleGraph Real

def IsErdosHajnalLowerBound {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α]
    (H : SimpleGraph α) (f : ℕ → ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∀ᶠ n in atTop, ∀ G : SimpleGraph (Fin n),
    (¬∃ g : α ↪ Fin n, H = G.comap g) →
      G.indepNum ≥ f n ∨ G.cliqueNum ≥ f n

def HasErdosHajnalProperty {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α]
    (H : SimpleGraph α) : Prop :=
  ∃ c > (0 : ℝ), IsErdosHajnalLowerBound H (fun n : ℕ => (n : ℝ) ^ c)

/-- The Erdős–Hajnal property is invariant under graph complementation. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α] (H : SimpleGraph α),
    HasErdosHajnalProperty H ↔ HasErdosHajnalProperty Hᶜ

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos61ComplementSymmetry
```

### 1. For every finite forbidden graph H, some exponent c(H) > 0 forces every sufficiently large H-free graph to co…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/50?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T03:52:59.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**For every finite forbidden graph H, some exponent c(H) > 0 forces every sufficiently large H-free graph to contain a clique or independent set of size at least n^c(H).**

Writer matched the current formal-conjectures proposition. A compiling True artifact reded locally at anti-restatement. No negation was found. Finite graph instances and an induced-copy-free K1 versus the zero-vertex graph witness nonvacuous inner hypotheses. Independent transcription compiled in both directions. All citations opened; vendor diversity unavailable.

**Scope.**

Every finite simple graph H and every sufficiently large finite simple graph G with no induced copy of H; the positive exponent may depend on H.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic

namespace Statements.Erdos61ErdosHajnal

open Filter SimpleGraph Real

def IsErdosHajnalLowerBound {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α]
    (H : SimpleGraph α) (f : ℕ → ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∀ᶠ n in atTop, ∀ G : SimpleGraph (Fin n),
    (¬∃ g : α ↪ Fin n, H = G.comap g) →
      G.indepNum ≥ f n ∨ G.cliqueNum ≥ f n

abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ {α : Type*} [Fintype α] [DecidableEq α] (H : SimpleGraph α),
    ∃ c > (0 : ℝ), IsErdosHajnalLowerBound H (fun n : ℕ => (n : ℝ) ^ c)

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos61ErdosHajnal
```

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