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Erdős Problem 757

References:

    erdosproblems.com/757

    [GyLe95] Gyárfás, András and Lehel, Jenő, Linear sets with five distinct differences among any four elements. J. Combin. Theory Ser. B (1995), 108-118.

open scoped Pointwiseopen Filter namespace Erdos757

We say that c is admissible if for any finit set A such that for any subset B of size 4, (B - B).card = 11, there exists a Sidon subset S of size at least c * A.ncard.

def IsAdmissible (c : ) : Prop := {A : Set }, A.Finite ( B A, B.ncard = 4 (B - B).ncard = 11) S A, IsSidon S c * A.ncard (S.ncard : )

What is the supremum of the set of admissible numbers?

@[category research open, AMS 5] theorem declaration uses 'sorry'erdos_757 {A : Set } : answer(sorry) = sSup {c | IsAdmissible c} := A:Set sorry = sSup {c | IsAdmissible c} All goals completed! 🐙

The supremum is strictly larger than 1 / 2, which is proved in [GyLe95].

@[category research solved, AMS 5] theorem declaration uses 'sorry'erdos_757.variants.lowerBound {A : Set } : 1 / (2 : ) < sSup {c | IsAdmissible c} := A:Set 1 / 2 < sSup {c | IsAdmissible c} All goals completed! 🐙

In [GyLe95], the authors also prove that the supremum is smaller than 3 / 5.

@[category research solved, AMS 5] theorem declaration uses 'sorry'erdos_757.variants.upperBound {A : Set } : sSup {c | IsAdmissible c} < 3 / (5 : ) := A:Set sSup {c | IsAdmissible c} < 3 / 5 All goals completed! 🐙 end Erdos757