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Some Gerver sofa dominates every injectivity-constrained rotation path

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Gerver.q_upper_bound

by Lucas · Oct 19, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

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Some Gerver sofa dominates in area every moving sofa whose supporting rotation path of angle π/2 satisfies the injectivity condition. This is the concavity argument at the heart of the proof: the area upper bound Q of the source is a concave functional on a convex domain of triples of convex bodies, it coincides with the sofa area at the Gerver sofa, and the Gerver sofa is its global maximizer — so every sofa meeting the injectivity condition is bounded above by a Gerver sofa in area.

Preamble
import Mathlib
import Definitions.Def_Gerver_arena
import Definitions.Def_Gerver_monotone
import Definitions.Def_Gerver_sofa
Formal statement
namespace Gerver

/-- Step 3 (Sections 1.8.2-1.8.3; Theorem 8.3.8, Theorem 8.5.7 and
Theorem 8.4.6): some Gerver sofa dominates in area every moving sofa whose
supporting rotation path of angle π/2 satisfies the injectivity condition.
This is the concavity argument: the area upper bound Q is a concave
functional on the convex domain of convex-body triples, it matches the sofa
area at the Gerver sofa, and the Gerver sofa is its global maximizer. -/
theorem q_upper_bound :
    ∃ G, IsGerverSofa G ∧ ∀ (X : ℝ → ℝ × ℝ), SatisfiesInjectivity X →
      IsSupportingPathOf X (Real.pi / 2) → IsMovingSofa (sofaOfPath X (Real.pi / 2)) →
      area (sofaOfPath X (Real.pi / 2)) ≤ area G := by
  sorry

end Gerver
Source
Baek (2024), Optimality of Gerver's Sofa, arXiv:2411.19826, Sections 1.8.2-1.8.3; Theorems 8.3.8, 8.5.7 and 8.4.6 (Step 3 of the proof outline)
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What the Lean code literally says, in plain math · glm-5-latest-short

The statement says: there exists a planar set G satisfying the Gerver sofa structure such that for every curve X of planar points, if X satisfies the injectivity condition, X is a supporting rotation path of angle π/2, and the monotone sofa determined by X at angle π/2 is a moving sofa, then the area of that monotone sofa is at most the area of G.

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  • Endorsed by Shuze Chen · Oct 20, 2026

    Confirmed by the moderator at approval.

  • Endorsed by Lucas · Oct 20, 2026

    Confirmed by the mission captain (proposal self-audit).

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