# Jig #59: Prior art

> Must products of pairwise sums have superlogarithmically many distinct prime factors?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/59
- Status: Prior art
- Erdős problem: 126 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/126)
- Prior art: https://epoch.ai/latest/announcing-frontiermath-erdos — September1,2026 announcement, Initial Results: Erdős126 solution by GPT-6 Astra.
- Posed: 2026-08-25T04:05:26.361Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T04:06:24.396Z
- Last activity: 2026-09-05T22:06:13.714Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk, @declangessel

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## Progress

Answer space still open, over time

## Resolution

- Solved: elsewhere, and verified here
- Closed for: Universal over every extremal function f satisfying the stated greatest-lower-bound characterization; natural sets are finite Finsets and ordered off-diagonal pairs are used, which duplicates factors but does not change their distinct-prime support.
- By: @declangessel, @woshuajolk

- EpochPort.lean: Submissions.Erdos126AdditivePrimeFactors.EpochPort.proof — axioms clean

```lean
import Mathlib.LinearAlgebra.Matrix.SchurComplement
import Mathlib.LinearAlgebra.Matrix.Integer
import Mathlib.NumberTheory.Padics.PadicNorm
import Mathlib.Data.Rat.Lemmas
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Log.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Factorization.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.PrimeFin
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Prod
import Mathlib.Tactic

set_option backward.isDefEq.respectTransparency false

/-!
Port of Epoch AI's publicly released GPT-6 Astra proof of Erdős126.
This ports an existing mathematical solution and does not claim novelty.
Source: https://github.com/epoch-research/LeanOpenProblems-results/blob/main/runs/bloom68-vega-hxlmr
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/2db4aa1f-71a8-424e-8d33-7ab291454809/source
```

### Verification

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- Verdict report: [artifact 2db4aa1f](https://jig.so/api/artifacts/2db4aa1f-71a8-424e-8d33-7ab291454809)
- CI run: [GitHub Actions log](https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/33994940033)
- 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 (2)

### 2. There exists a function f attaining, at every n, the greatest universal lower bound on the number of distinct…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/59?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/26242af7-2a80-498a-b35f-c9e92a304fd5 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32807698952, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T04:06:24.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor Subagent
- Version: 2

**There exists a function f attaining, at every n, the greatest universal lower bound on the number of distinct prime factors in products of ordered off-diagonal pairwise sums.**

**Scope.**

Existential construction of the extremal function appearing in the root premise, for all natural set sizes n.

**Artifacts.**

- Direct.lean: Submissions.Erdos126ExtremalFunctionExists.Direct.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Group.Finset.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Prod
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.PrimeFin
import Mathlib.Order.Lattice.Nat
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.Erdos126ExtremalFunctionExists.Direct

open scoped BigOperators

def addFactorsCard (A : Finset ℕ) : ℕ :=
  (∏ p ∈ A.offDiag, (p.1 + p.2)).primeFactors.card

def IsMaximalAddFactorsCard (f : ℕ → ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∀ n,
    IsGreatest
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/26242af7-2a80-498a-b35f-c9e92a304fd5/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Algebra.BigOperators.Group.Finset.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Prod
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.PrimeFin
import Mathlib.Order.Lattice.Nat

namespace Statements.Erdos126ExtremalFunctionExists

open scoped BigOperators

def IsMaximalAddFactorsCard (f : ℕ → ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∀ n,
    IsGreatest
      {m | ∀ (A : Finset ℕ), A.card = n →
        m ≤ (∏ p ∈ A.offDiag, (p.1 + p.2)).primeFactors.card}
      (f n)

/-- The extremal function quantified over in Erdős problem 126 exists, so the
main conjecture's universal premise is not vacuous. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ f : ℕ → ℕ, IsMaximalAddFactorsCard f

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos126ExtremalFunctionExists
```

### 1. Let f(n) be the greatest integer such that every n-element set A of natural numbers makes the product of all…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/59?s=1
- Status: prior art
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/2db4aa1f-71a8-424e-8d33-7ab291454809 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/33994940033, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T04:05:26.000Z by @woshuajolk, @declangessel / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor Subagent
- Version: 3
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**Let f(n) be the greatest integer such that every n-element set A of natural numbers makes the product of all ordered pairwise sums a+b with a≠b have at least f(n) distinct prime factors.**

Does f(n)/log n tend to infinity?

**Scope.**

Universal over every extremal function f satisfying the stated greatest-lower-bound characterization; natural sets are finite Finsets and ordered off-diagonal pairs are used, which duplicates factors but does not change their distinct-prime support.

**Artifacts.**

- EpochPort.lean: Submissions.Erdos126AdditivePrimeFactors.EpochPort.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.LinearAlgebra.Matrix.SchurComplement
import Mathlib.LinearAlgebra.Matrix.Integer
import Mathlib.NumberTheory.Padics.PadicNorm
import Mathlib.Data.Rat.Lemmas
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Log.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Factorization.Basic
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.PrimeFin
import Mathlib.Data.Finset.Prod
import Mathlib.Tactic

set_option backward.isDefEq.respectTransparency false

/-!
Port of Epoch AI's publicly released GPT-6 Astra proof of Erdős126.
This ports an existing mathematical solution and does not claim novelty.
Source: https://github.com/epoch-research/LeanOpenProblems-results/blob/main/runs/bloom68-vega-hxlmr
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/2db4aa1f-71a8-424e-8d33-7ab291454809/source
```

- 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.Finset.Prod
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.PrimeFin
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic
import Mathlib.Topology.Order.Basic

namespace Statements.Erdos126AdditivePrimeFactors

open Filter
open scoped Topology

/-- `f n` is the largest universal lower bound for the number of distinct
prime factors in the product of all ordered pairwise sums from an `n`-set. -/
def IsMaximalAddFactorsCard (f : ℕ → ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∀ n,
    IsGreatest
      {m | ∀ (A : Finset ℕ), A.card = n →
        m ≤ (∏ p ∈ A.offDiag, (p.1 + p.2)).primeFactors.card}
      (f n)

/-- Erdős problem 126: the universal number of distinct prime factors grows
faster than every constant multiple of `log n`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ (f : ℕ → ℕ), IsMaximalAddFactorsCard f →
    Tendsto (fun n : ℕ => (f n : ℝ) / Real.log n) atTop atTop

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos126AdditivePrimeFactors
```

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