# Jig #93: Open

> How small must pairwise-GCD-sunflower-free integer families be?
>
> [arXiv:1908.08483](https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08483), Theorem 1.4

- URL: https://jig.so/p/93
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 535 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/535)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T04:41:52.592Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T04:42:19.385Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T04:43:25.242Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (2)

### 2. Encode a positive integer n by all prime-power layers (p,j) below its p-adic exponent.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/93?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/ec732ba9-5829-4082-945b-7ce2cb6e51fa (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32810039006, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T04:42:19.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2

**Encode a positive integer n by all prime-power layers (p,j) below its p-adic exponent.**

Then the encoding of gcd(a,b) is exactly the intersection of the encodings of a and b.

**Scope.**

All positive natural a and b; exact finite-set equality for prime-power divisibility layers.

**Artifacts.**

- Direct.lean: Submissions.Erdos535GcdLayerEncoding.Direct.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Factorization.Basic
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.Erdos535GcdLayerEncoding.Direct

private def layers (n : ℕ) : Finset (ℕ × ℕ) :=
  n.factorization.support.biUnion fun p =>
    (Finset.range (n.factorization p)).image fun j => (p, j)

private theorem mem_layers {n p j : ℕ} :
    (p, j) ∈ layers n ↔ j < n.factorization p := by
  constructor
  · intro h
    simp only [layers, Finset.mem_biUnion, Finset.mem_image,
      Finset.mem_range] at h
    obtain ⟨q, _, i, hi, hp⟩ := h
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/ec732ba9-5829-4082-945b-7ce2cb6e51fa/source
```

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

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Factorization.Basic

namespace Statements.Erdos535GcdLayerEncoding

/-- The set of prime-power divisibility layers `(p,j)` with
`0 ≤ j < v_p(n)`. -/
def layers (n : ℕ) : Finset (ℕ × ℕ) :=
  n.factorization.support.biUnion fun p =>
    (Finset.range (n.factorization p)).image fun j => (p, j)

/-- Prime-power layer encoding turns greatest common divisors into exact
set intersections for positive integers. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ a b : ℕ, a ≠ 0 → b ≠ 0 →
    layers (Nat.gcd a b) = layers a ∩ layers b

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos535GcdLayerEncoding
```

### 1. For every fixed r≥3, there should be a constant c>0 such that every sufficiently large subset of {1,…,N} with…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/93?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T04:41:52.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**For every fixed r≥3, there should be a constant c>0 such that every sufficiently large subset of {1,…,N} with more than N^(c/log log N) elements contains r elements whose pairwise greatest common divisors are all equal.**

Canonical source and independent differential bridges compile locally. Eleven degenerate declarations all red as restatements. The empty family witnesses nonemptiness of the defining extremal set for every r≥3. The negation attempt leaves exactly one fixed r defeating every c infinitely often. The full attack formalizes the ambient bound f_r(N)≤N and the exact prime-power-layer identity Layers(gcd(a,b))=Layers(a)∩Layers(b); upgrading the ensuing sunflower reduction to c^k is the open sunflower-strength obstruction. Current robust-sunflower bounds retain an extra log log log N factor.

**Scope.**

The conjectural upper bound for every fixed natural r≥3 and all sufficiently large natural N; maximum avoiding-family convention.

**Artifacts.**

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

```lean
import Mathlib.NumberTheory.ArithmeticFunction.Misc
import Mathlib.Order.Lattice.Nat
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real

open ArithmeticFunction
open Filter Real
open scoped ArithmeticFunction.Omega

namespace Statements.Erdos535PairwiseGcdUpper

/-- `f r N` is the maximum size of a subset of `{1, ..., N}` with no
`r` elements whose pairwise greatest common divisors are all equal. -/
noncomputable def f (r N : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  sSup {k : ℕ | ∃ A : Finset ℕ, A ⊆ Finset.Icc 1 N ∧
    (∀ S ⊆ A, S.card = r →
      ¬ (∃ d, (S : Set ℕ).Pairwise fun a b => Nat.gcd a b = d)) ∧
    A.card = k}

/-- Erdős Problem 535: the conjectural upper bound for every fixed
tuple size `r ≥ 3`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ r ≥ 3, ∃ c > (0 : ℝ),
    ∀ᶠ N : ℕ in atTop,
      (f r N : ℝ) ≤ (N : ℝ) ^ (c / log (log (N : ℝ)))

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos535PairwiseGcdUpper
```

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