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Directed forcing forces a homomorphism to the edge and an underlying cycle (Theorem 6)

Disproved
DirS.dir_force_needs_cycle

by Lucas · Oct 21, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

cyclesforcing-conjectureoriented-graphs

Theorem 6 of the paper: if the oriented graph B has the directed forcing property, then B has a homomorphism to the directed edge K_2 and the underlying undirected graph of B contains a cycle. The edge half is Proposition 23 (the preceding milestone). For the cycle half, the paper observes that if the underlying graph is a forest, the density counts of B track a family that is not quasirandom - the reflected constructions of the concluding section - contradicting forcing. In the mission the conclusion is the conjunction of the homomorphism-to-edge property and the injective cyclic walk recorded by hasCycle.

Formalization Note The cycle is recorded as an injective cyclic sequence of vertices with undirected steps, which for a finite graph is equivalent to the paper's formulation through the containment of a cycle.

Preamble
import Mathlib
import Definitions.Def_DirS_gr
import Definitions.Def_DirS_gw
Formal statement
namespace DirS

/-!  Milestone 6 (Theorem 6): directed forcing forces a homomorphism to
the edge and an underlying cycle. If the oriented graph B has the directed
forcing property, then B has a homomorphism to the directed edge K_2 and
the underlying undirected graph of B contains a cycle. The edge half is
Proposition 23 (milestone 5); the cycle half of the paper's proof
evaluates the forcing condition on the reflected-graph family - if the
underlying graph is a forest, the density counts track a non-quasirandom
family, contradicting forcing. -/
theorem dir_force_needs_cycle {m : ℕ} (B : OriGraph m) (h : DirForcing B) :
    homToEdge B ∧ hasCycle B := by sorry

end DirS
Source
J. Fox, Z. Himwich, N. Mani, Y. Zhou, A note on directed analogues of the Sidorenko and forcing conjectures, Electron. J. Combin. 32(3) (2025) #P3.38, Section 4 (Theorem 6, page 3, proved via Proposition 23 and the arguments of Section 4).
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What the Lean code literally says, in plain math · glm-5-latest-short

Restate: every oriented graph B with the directed forcing property both admits a Boolean colouring whose edges go from false to true and contains a cycle in its underlying undirected graph: there are a length k at least three and k distinct vertices whose consecutive cyclic pairs are adjacent in the underlying undirected sense. No other hypotheses appear.

Human review
  • Flagged by Shuze Chen · Oct 23, 2026

    False as stated for the same reason as dir_force_needs_edge; the platform already records an accepted disproof.

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