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Erdős Problem 120

Reference:

    erdosproblems.com/120

    St20 Steinhaus, Hugo, Sur les distances des points dans les ensembles de measure positive. Fund. Math. (1920), 93-104.

open Set MeasureTheory namespace Erdos120

There exists a set $E \subseteq \mathbb{R}$, dependent on set $A \subseteq \mathbb{R}$, of positive measure which does not contain any set of the shape $a * A + b$ for some $a,b \in \mathbb{R}$ and $a \neq 0$?

def Erdos120For (A : Set ) : Prop := E : Set , MeasurableSet E 0 < volume E a b : , a 0 ¬ .image (fun x => a * x + b) A E

Let $A \subseteq \mathbb{R}$ be an infinite set. Must there be a set $E \subseteq \mathbb{R}$ of positive measure which does not contain any set of the shape $a * A + b$ for some $a,b \in \mathbb{R}$ and $a \neq 0$?

@[category research open, AMS 5 28] theorem declaration uses 'sorry'erdos_120 : answer(sorry) A : Set , A.Infinite Erdos120For A := True (A : Set ), A.Infinite Erdos120For A All goals completed! 🐙

Steinhaus [St20] has proved Erdős 120 to be false whenever $A$ is a finite set.

@[category research solved, AMS 5 28] theorem declaration uses 'sorry'erdos_120.variants.finite_set {A : Set } (h : A.Finite) : ¬ Erdos120For A := A:Set h:A.Finite¬Erdos120For A All goals completed! 🐙 end Erdos120