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Vinogradov-type lemma with coprimality (source Lemma 3.4, interval form)

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TaoFivePrimes.vinogradov_lemma_if_form_coprime

by Yuxuan Xu · Sep 16, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

analytic-number-theoryexponential-sumsgoldbachnumber-theory

Lemma 3.4 in the form the Type I argument consumes, with the coprimality hypothesis restored.

Let q≥1q\ge1q≥1, let A′≥0A'\ge0A′≥0 and B≥0B\ge0B≥0, let a′a'a′ be an integer coprime to qqq, and let α′=a′q+β′\alpha'=\frac{a'}{q}+\beta'α′=qa′​+β′ with ∣β′∣≤q−2|\beta'|\le q^{-2}∣β′∣≤q−2. Then for all real θ′\theta'θ′ and all u<vu<vu<v,

∑⌊u⌋<n≤⌊v⌋ vmin(A′,B∣sin⁡(πα′n+θ′)∣) ≤ (⌊v−uq⌋+1)(2A′+2πBqlog⁡4q),\sum_{\lfloor u\rfloor<n\le\lfloor v\rfloor}\ \mathrm{vmin}\Bigl(A',\frac{B}{|\sin(\pi\alpha'n+\theta')|}\Bigr)\ \le\ \Bigl(\Bigl\lfloor\frac{v-u}{q}\Bigr\rfloor+1\Bigr)\Bigl(2A'+\frac2\pi Bq\log 4q\Bigr),⌊u⌋<n≤⌊v⌋∑​ vmin(A′,∣sin(πα′n+θ′)∣B​) ≤ (⌊qv−u​⌋+1)(2A′+π2​Bqlog4q),

with vmin(A′,t)=A′\mathrm{vmin}(A',t)=A'vmin(A′,t)=A′ at a vanishing phase and min⁡(A′,t)\min(A',t)min(A′,t) elsewhere.

This is the source's Lemma 3.4, stated over the integer interval (⌊u⌋,⌊v⌋](\lfloor u\rfloor,\lfloor v\rfloor](⌊u⌋,⌊v⌋]. It differs from the platform's TaoFivePrimes.vinogradov_lemma_if_form (which is false as stated — see the Accepted disproof) only by the added hypothesis gcd⁡(∣a′∣,q)=1\gcd(|a'|,q)=1gcd(∣a′∣,q)=1; that hypothesis is part of the classical statement, since the source writes α=a/q\alpha=a/qα=a/q with a/qa/qa/q a reduced fraction, and it is exactly what prevents the phase from being constant modulo π\piπ.

The proof is the source's: subdivide the range into ⌊v−uq⌋+1\lfloor\frac{v-u}{q}\rfloor+1⌊qv−u​⌋+1 consecutive blocks of length qqq and apply the block estimate on each. The subdivision half is already formalised and proved as TaoFivePrimes.vinogradov_lemma_if_form_from_block; this node is the assembly of that with the corrected block estimate TaoFivePrimes.vinogradov_block_coprime.

Formalization note. The hypotheses A′≥0A'\ge0A′≥0 and B≥0B\ge0B≥0 are needed: for A′<0A'<0A′<0 the left side has one term per integer in the interval while the right side only counts blocks of length qqq. The convention at the zeros of the sine is made explicit by an if, since Lean's real division returns 000 there.

Preamble
import Mathlib

open Finset
Formal statement
theorem TaoFivePrimes.vinogradov_lemma_if_form_coprime
    (B : ℝ) (hB : 0 ≤ B) (q : ℕ) (hq : 0 < q)
    (A' alpha' beta' theta' u v : ℝ) (a' : ℤ) (hA' : 0 ≤ A')
    (ha'q : Nat.Coprime a'.natAbs q)
    (halpha' : alpha' = (a' : ℝ) / q + beta') (hbeta' : |beta'| ≤ 1 / (q : ℝ) ^ 2)
    (huv : u < v) :
    (∑ n ∈ Finset.Ioc ⌊u⌋ ⌊v⌋,
        (if Real.sin (Real.pi * alpha' * (n : ℝ) + theta') = 0 then A'
          else min A' (B / |Real.sin (Real.pi * alpha' * (n : ℝ) + theta')|)))
      ≤ ((⌊(v - u) / (q : ℝ)⌋ : ℤ) + 1)
          * (2 * A' + (2 / Real.pi) * B * (q : ℝ) * Real.log (4 * q)) := by
  sorry
Source
Terence Tao, "Every odd number greater than 1 is the sum of at most five primes", Mathematics of Computation 83 (2014), 997-1038; arXiv:1201.6656v4, Lemma 3.4 and its proof ("By subdivision of the interval [x,y] it suffices to show that ... for all x"), together with the coprimality convention for the reduced fraction a/q used throughout Section 5 (see (5.15), where a=0 or q | a d would be excluded). https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.6656

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