Theorem 10.3 — Eventual existence of three-family residual partition

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Erdos390.eventual_three_family_residual_exists

by doctosil · Sep 6, 2026 · Mathlib c5ea003 (Lean v4.30.0)

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Theorem 10.3 (Eventual Existence of Three-Family Residual Partition)

Fix a constant $c > C_0 = \frac{4029639598}{25970038185}$ , and put $h = \left\lceil c \frac{n}{\log n} \right\rceil$ .

For all sufficiently large $n \in \mathbb{N}$ , given any divisor $D \in \mathbb{N}$ and central factor subset $\mathrm{central} \subseteq (n, 2n]$ satisfying $\prod_{\mathrm{central}} a = \binom{2n}{n} D$ and $D \mid \prod_{(2n, 2n+h]} a$ , there exist three mutually disjoint factor subsets $\mathrm{fixed}, \mathrm{bank}, \mathrm{candidates} \subseteq (n, 2n + h]$ , each disjoint from $\mathrm{central}$ , satisfying:

\left( \prod_{a \in \mathrm{fixed}} a \right) \cdot \left( \prod_{a \in \mathrm{bank}} a \right) \cdot \left( \prod_{a \in \mathrm{candidates}} a \right) \cdot D = \prod_{a \in (2n, 2n+h]} a.

This isolates the analytical and rounding core of the residual construction (Shouqiao Wang's BankPaperExactificationApplication.lean and BankPaperUpperConstructionReduction.lean), combining deterministic fixed factors, signed bank adjustments, and Beck-Fiala floating rounding.

Preamble

import Definitions.Def_erdos390_problem
open Filter

Formal statement

namespace Erdos390

open Filter

theorem eventual_three_family_residual_exists :
    ∀ c : ℝ, C0 < c →
      ∀ᶠ n : ℕ in atTop,
        ∀ (D : ℕ) (central : Finset ℕ),
          central ⊆ factorInterval n (2 * n) →
          central.prod id = Nat.choose (2 * n) n * D →
          D ∣ (factorInterval (2 * n) (2 * n + Nat.ceil (c * secondOrderScale n))).prod id →
          ∃ (fixed bank candidates : Finset ℕ),
            fixed ⊆ factorInterval n (2 * n + Nat.ceil (c * secondOrderScale n)) ∧
            bank ⊆ factorInterval n (2 * n + Nat.ceil (c * secondOrderScale n)) ∧
            candidates ⊆ factorInterval n (2 * n + Nat.ceil (c * secondOrderScale n)) ∧
            Disjoint central fixed ∧
            Disjoint central bank ∧
            Disjoint central candidates ∧
            Disjoint fixed bank ∧
            Disjoint (fixed ∪ bank) candidates ∧
            fixed.prod id * bank.prod id * candidates.prod id * D =
              (factorInterval (2 * n) (2 * n + Nat.ceil (c * secondOrderScale n))).prod id := by sorry

end Erdos390

Source

Shouqiao Wang, A Proposed Solution to Erdős Problem 390, Section 9-10, BankPaperExactificationApplication.lean (GitHub 61325b1)

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