# Jig #79: Open

> Do least-prime-factor windows contain increasingly deep composite numbers?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/79
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 463 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/463)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T04:24:58.787Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T04:26:46.392Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T04:28:07.490Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

Answer space still open, over time

## Statements (2)

### 2. For every prescribed margin B, there are natural numbers n and composite m such that m lies above n+B but bel…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/79?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/f552e64c-db06-4371-a1a0-f161d2fcd02a (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32809072107, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T04:26:46.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2

**For every prescribed margin B, there are natural numbers n and composite m such that m lies above n+B but below n plus its own least prime factor.**

**Scope.**

Arbitrarily large isolated margins at some base n; no eventual or uniform-in-n assertion.

**Artifacts.**

- PrimeSquares.lean: Submissions.Erdos463ArbitrarilyLargeWindows.PrimeSquares.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Prime.Infinite
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Prime.Pow
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.Erdos463ArbitrarilyLargeWindows.PrimeSquares

theorem proof :
    ∀ B : ℕ, ∃ n m : ℕ,
      (1 < m ∧ ¬m.Prime) ∧
      n + B < m ∧ m < n + m.minFac := by
  intro B
  obtain ⟨p, hp_bound, hp⟩ := Nat.exists_infinite_primes (B + 2)
  let d := B + 1
  let m := p ^ 2
  let n := m - d
  have hd_lt_p : d < p := by
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/f552e64c-db06-4371-a1a0-f161d2fcd02a/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Prime.Infinite
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Prime.Pow

namespace Statements.Erdos463ArbitrarilyLargeWindows

/-- Arbitrarily large least-prime-factor margins occur at some base points.
This is the limsup analogue of the eventual assertion in Erdős Problem 463. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ B : ℕ, ∃ n m : ℕ,
    (1 < m ∧ ¬m.Prime) ∧
    n + B < m ∧ m < n + m.minFac

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos463ArbitrarilyLargeWindows
```

### 1. There should be a natural-valued function f tending to infinity such that, for every sufficiently large n, so…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/79?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T04:24:58.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**There should be a natural-valued function f tending to infinity such that, for every sufficiently large n, some composite m lies above n+f(n) but below n plus the least prime factor of m.**

Canonical source and both differential bridges compile locally. Eleven degenerate declarations all red as restatements. The existential growth condition is inhabited by the identity function. A direct negation exposes the required eventual counterexample. The whole attack uses prime squares to kernel-check arbitrarily large isolated least-factor windows, but these intervals are sparse and do not cover every sufficiently large base point.

**Scope.**

The affirmative current formulation for all sufficiently large natural n, with f : ℕ → ℕ tending to infinity and strict inequalities.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Prime.Basic
import Mathlib.Order.Filter.AtTopBot.Archimedean

open Filter

namespace Statements.Erdos463CompositeLeastFactorWindow

private abbrev IsComposite (m : ℕ) : Prop :=
  1 < m ∧ ¬m.Prime

/-- Erdős Problem 463: composite numbers should eventually cross every
diverging lower offset while remaining within their least-prime-factor window. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ f : ℕ → ℕ, Tendsto f atTop atTop ∧
    ∀ᶠ n in atTop,
      ∃ m : ℕ, IsComposite m ∧
        n + f n < m ∧ m < n + m.minFac

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos463CompositeLeastFactorWindow
```

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