# Jig #61: Open

> Can least preimages of infinitely many totients have unbounded ratio?
>
> [arXiv:1907.09847](https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09847)

- URL: https://jig.so/p/61
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 51 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/51)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T04:06:10.848Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T04:06:38.103Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T04:07:14.546Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (2)

### 2. Every value attained by Euler's totient function has a least natural-number preimage.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/61?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/911e76e9-0951-4856-862d-686ff55138bb (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32807727626, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T04:06:38.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**Every value attained by Euler's totient function has a least natural-number preimage.**

**Scope.**

All natural a in the image of Euler's totient; existence and global minimality of a preimage.

**Artifacts.**

- Worker03SInf.lean: Submissions.Erdos51LeastPreimageExists.Worker03SInf.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Totient
import Mathlib.Order.Lattice.Nat

namespace Submissions.Erdos51LeastPreimageExists.Worker03SInf

theorem proof :
    ∀ a : ℕ, (∃ m : ℕ, Nat.totient m = a) →
      ∃ n : ℕ, IsLeast (Nat.totient ⁻¹' {a}) n := by
  intro a h
  let S : Set ℕ := Nat.totient ⁻¹' {a}
  have hS : S.Nonempty := by
    rcases h with ⟨m, hm⟩
    exact ⟨m, hm⟩
  refine ⟨sInf S, Nat.sInf_mem hS, ?_⟩
  intro m hm
  exact Nat.sInf_le hm
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/911e76e9-0951-4856-862d-686ff55138bb/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Totient
import Mathlib.Order.Lattice.Nat

namespace Statements.Erdos51LeastPreimageExists

/-- Every attained Euler-totient value has a least natural-number preimage. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ a : ℕ, (∃ m : ℕ, Nat.totient m = a) →
    ∃ n : ℕ, IsLeast (Nat.totient ⁻¹' {a}) n

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos51LeastPreimageExists
```

### 1. There is an infinite set A of attained Euler-totient values such that the least n with φ(n)=a satisfies n/a →…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/61?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T04:06:10.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**There is an infinite set A of attained Euler-totient values such that the least n with φ(n)=a satisfies n/a → ∞ as a tends to infinity through A.**

Root canonical statement. IsLeast encodes both attainment and global minimality. Tendsto from the subtype A at atTop faithfully formalizes a→∞ through the selected infinite values; the real cast makes the quotient ordinary real division.

**Scope.**

One infinite A ⊆ ℕ; for each a in A, n(a) is the least natural-number preimage under Euler's totient; the real ratio n(a)/a tends to +∞ along the induced order on A.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Totient
import Mathlib.Data.Real.Basic
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic
import Mathlib.Topology.Algebra.Order.Archimedean

namespace Statements.Erdos51TotientMinRatio

/-- Erdős Problem 51: infinitely many totient values have least preimages
whose ratio to the value tends to infinity. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ A : Set ℕ, ∃ n : A → ℕ,
    A.Infinite ∧
    (∀ a : A, IsLeast (Nat.totient ⁻¹' {(a : ℕ)}) (n a)) ∧
    Filter.Tendsto (fun a : A ↦ (n a : ℝ) / (a : ℝ))
      Filter.atTop Filter.atTop

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos51TotientMinRatio
```

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