# Jig #76: Open

> Do successive triangle-book edge thresholds diverge apart?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/76
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 600 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/600)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T04:23:08.833Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T04:23:25.469Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T04:28:14.849Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (2)

### 2. For every n and r, increasing the required number of triangles on the forced edge cannot decrease the least e…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/76?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/4f3db5ae-a7f1-46ae-b0f3-2ea9ff511f05 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32808789179, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T04:23:25.000Z 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 n and r, increasing the required number of triangles on the forced edge cannot decrease the least edge threshold.**

**Scope.**

All finite n and natural r, using exactly the root threshold and triangle-count definitions.

**Artifacts.**

- Order.lean: Submissions.Erdos600ThresholdMonotone.Order.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Triangle.Basic
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.Erdos600ThresholdMonotone.Order

open scoped Classical

noncomputable def trianglesContaining {α : Type*} [Fintype α]
    (G : SimpleGraph α) (uv : Sym2 α) : Finset (Finset α) :=
  (G.cliqueFinset 3).filter (fun t => uv.toFinset ⊆ t)

def ThresholdProperty (n e r : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∀ G : SimpleGraph (Fin n), G.edgeFinset.card ≥ e →
    (∀ uv ∈ G.edgeFinset, (trianglesContaining G uv).Nonempty) →
      ∃ uv ∈ G.edgeFinset, r ≤ (trianglesContaining G uv).card
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/4f3db5ae-a7f1-46ae-b0f3-2ea9ff511f05/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Triangle.Basic
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique

/-!
# Monotonicity of the Erdős 600 edge threshold

Requiring an edge to lie in one more triangle cannot lower the least edge
threshold.
-/

namespace Statements.Erdos600ThresholdMonotone

open scoped Classical

noncomputable def trianglesContaining {α : Type*} [Fintype α]
    (G : SimpleGraph α) (uv : Sym2 α) : Finset (Finset α) :=
  (G.cliqueFinset 3).filter (fun t => uv.toFinset ⊆ t)

def ThresholdProperty (n e r : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∀ G : SimpleGraph (Fin n), G.edgeFinset.card ≥ e →
    (∀ uv ∈ G.edgeFinset, (trianglesContaining G uv).Nonempty) →
      ∃ uv ∈ G.edgeFinset, r ≤ (trianglesContaining G uv).card

noncomputable def threshold (n r : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  sInf {e | ThresholdProperty n e r}

abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ n r : ℕ, threshold n r ≤ threshold n (r + 1)

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos600ThresholdMonotone
```

### 1. For every fixed r at least two, the difference between the least edge thresholds forcing book sizes r+1 and r…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/76?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T04:23:08.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**For every fixed r at least two, the difference between the least edge thresholds forcing book sizes r+1 and r in triangle-covered n-vertex graphs tends to infinity with n.**

Full attack rewrote e(n,r)=F_r(n)+1, tried local edge insertion for r=2, blow-ups, and the o(n^2) Ruzsa-Szemeredi bound. These establish monotonicity and related asymptotics but not an unbounded successive gap. Monotonicity is separately kernel-checked.

**Scope.**

Finite simple graphs on Fin n; every edge must lie in a triangle; thresholds are least natural edge counts; fixed r>=2 and n tends to infinity.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Triangle.Basic
import Mathlib.Combinatorics.SimpleGraph.Clique
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Nat

/-!
# Erdős problem 600(i)

Let `e(n,r)` be the least edge threshold forcing one edge to lie in at least
`r` triangles, among graphs in which every edge lies in a triangle. Do
successive thresholds diverge apart?
-/

open Filter

namespace Statements.Erdos600ThresholdGapDiverges

open scoped Classical

noncomputable def trianglesContaining {α : Type*} [Fintype α]
    (G : SimpleGraph α) (uv : Sym2 α) : Finset (Finset α) :=
  (G.cliqueFinset 3).filter (fun t => uv.toFinset ⊆ t)

def ThresholdProperty (n e r : ℕ) : Prop :=
  ∀ G : SimpleGraph (Fin n), G.edgeFinset.card ≥ e →
    (∀ uv ∈ G.edgeFinset, (trianglesContaining G uv).Nonempty) →
      ∃ uv ∈ G.edgeFinset, r ≤ (trianglesContaining G uv).card

noncomputable def threshold (n r : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  sInf {e | ThresholdProperty n e r}

abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ r : ℕ, 2 ≤ r →
    Tendsto
      (fun n : ℕ => (threshold n (r + 1) : ℝ) - (threshold n r : ℝ))
      atTop atTop

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos600ThresholdGapDiverges
```

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