Problem CB-008 — the Erdős conjecture on arithmetic progressions
Conjectura.Problems.CB008.Statement
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import Mathlib.Algebra.Order.BigOperators.Group.Finset
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Conjectura.Defs.Mathematics.Combinatorics.ArithmeticProgression
/-! # Problem CB-008 — the Erdős conjecture on arithmetic progressions
LOCKED: solvers cannot modify this file.
-/
namespace Conjectura.CB008
open Conjectura.Combinatorics
/-- If the reciprocals of a set of naturals diverge, does it contain arbitrarily long
arithmetic progressions? Erdős offered $3000, his largest prize. The case of the
primes is the Green–Tao theorem; the general statement is open. -/
def goal : Prop :=
∀ (A : Set ℕ) [DecidablePred (· ∈ A)],
(∀ C : ℝ, ∃ N : ℕ,
C < ∑ n ∈ Finset.range N, (if n ∈ A then (1 : ℝ) / n else 0)) →
∀ k : ℕ, ContainsAPOfLength A k
end Conjectura.CB008