# Jig #63: Open

> Is the C₄ minimum-degree threshold eventually nondecreasing?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/63
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 85 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/85)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T04:07:29.152Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T04:09:23.991Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T04:16:28.830Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (2)

### 2. Adding one vertex can increase the minimum-degree threshold that forces a four-cycle by at most one.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/63?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/363702ca-84da-4b78-b088-6fef62c3ed84 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32807940090, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T04:09:23.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**Adding one vertex can increase the minimum-degree threshold that forces a four-cycle by at most one.**

**Scope.**

Every natural vertex count, for the same C₄-forcing threshold used by the root conjecture.

**Artifacts.**

- Worker01.lean: Submissions.Erdos85ThresholdUpperStep.Worker01.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.CycleGraph
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Finite
namespace Submissions.Erdos85ThresholdUpperStep.Worker01
open Finset SimpleGraph
open scoped Classical SimpleGraph
private theorem drop {n : ℕ} (G : SimpleGraph (Fin (n+1))) (v : Fin n) : G.degree v.castSucc ≤ (G.co
 rw [← card_neighborFinset_eq_degree, ← card_neighborFinset_eq_degree]
 calc
  #(G.neighborFinset v.castSucc) ≤ #(((G.comap Fin.castSucc).neighborFinset v).map Fin.castSuccEmb ∪
   apply card_le_card
   intro x hx
   by_cases hl : x = Fin.last n
   · exact Finset.mem_union_right _ (Finset.mem_singleton.mpr hl)
   · apply Finset.mem_union_left
     apply Finset.mem_map.mpr
     have hxl : x.val < n := by simpa [Fin.lt_def] using Fin.lt_last_iff_ne_last.mpr hl
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/363702ca-84da-4b78-b088-6fef62c3ed84/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.CycleGraph
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Finite

namespace Statements.Erdos85ThresholdUpperStep

open Finset SimpleGraph
open scoped Classical SimpleGraph

/-- The least minimum-degree threshold forcing a four-cycle on `n` vertices. -/
noncomputable def c4Threshold (n : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  sInf {k : ℕ | ∀ (G : SimpleGraph (Fin n)), G.minDegree ≥ k → (cycleGraph 4) ⊑ G}

/-- Adding one vertex can raise the four-cycle minimum-degree threshold by at most one. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ n : ℕ, c4Threshold (n + 1) ≤ c4Threshold n + 1

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos85ThresholdUpperStep
```

### 1. For all sufficiently large n, the least minimum degree that forces a four-cycle on n vertices is at most the…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/63?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T04:07:29.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**For all sufficiently large n, the least minimum degree that forces a four-cycle on n vertices is at most the corresponding threshold on n+1 vertices.**

Root verifier copies the positive proposition from current Formal Conjectures, with f renamed c4Threshold. Local canonical build, satisfiability witnesses, differential transcription, and must-fail anti-restatement control all passed their intended gates.

**Scope.**

The eventual adjacent monotonicity of the C₄-forcing minimum-degree threshold over all finite simple graphs.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.CycleGraph
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Finite
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Basic

namespace Statements.Erdos85C4MinimumDegreeMonotone

open Classical Filter Finset SimpleGraph
open scoped SimpleGraph

/-- The least minimum-degree threshold forcing a four-cycle on `n` vertices. -/
noncomputable def c4Threshold (n : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  sInf {k : ℕ | ∀ (G : SimpleGraph (Fin n)), G.minDegree ≥ k → (cycleGraph 4) ⊑ G}

/-- Erdős Problem 85: the four-cycle minimum-degree threshold is eventually nondecreasing. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ᶠ n in Filter.atTop, c4Threshold n ≤ c4Threshold (n + 1)

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos85C4MinimumDegreeMonotone
```

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