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Claim. Let be the largest size of a set such that whenever with and , the case included, which the manuscript calls strongly 2-primitive and which is the site's condition. Theorem 1.1 states that, as ,
so the constant the problem asks for exists and equals . The source is P. Chojecki, The second term for strongly 2-primitive sets, a five-page manuscript served by the author's organization (PDF metadata dated 13 July 2026, posted in the site's thread the same day), with the result page Theorem 1.1 on the source card. The upper bound (Proposition 2.4) follows Erdős's 1938 argument: every integer up to is a product of two members of a basis made of four classes (the integers up to , the primes in , the products of two primes up to , and the products of primes and with and ), a strongly 2-primitive set has at most as many members as the basis, and the prime number theorem with partial summation gives the counts and of the last two classes, . The lower bound (Proposition 3.4) packs a linear family of prime triples with products at most , built from proper edge-colorings between logarithmic bins of primes near , and takes the unused primes together with the triple products; the cell weights sum to .
Provenance. The manuscript's byline footnote declares AI assistance in exploring the argument and writing the text, and the site's commentary attributes the proof to GPT 5.6 Sol prompted by the author; the manuscript names one human author, who is the claimant.
Acceptance. Reviewed: the site's curator, Thomas Bloom, who neither
submitted nor co-wrote the claim, labels the problem PROVED (LEAN) with the
page last edited 14 July 2026, and the curator's commentary credits the
asymptotic to GPT 5.6 Sol prompted by Chojecki, with the manuscript linked; the
curator's thread comment of 14 July 2026 states that the
upper-bound proof is Erdős's own 1938 argument with its constant tracked and
that the lower bound is the same construction as Erdős's, reduced to a linear
3-uniform hypergraph on primes; the page as accessed 2026-09-18 and
2026-10-07 shows thirteen comments, one proof claim and no exposition.
Not refereed: the manuscript was posted to arXiv on 14 July 2026
(arXiv:2607.15306, one version, same title and author; record read
2026-10-02), which is not refereeing, and no journal version or written
expert review of the manuscript was found (Crossref bibliographic query of
2026-09-18 recorded on the problem page). Not formalized here: two Lean
developments are linked, and neither is counted as formalized. The
development the thread names, ErdosProblem793.lean in van Doorn's public
repository, linked at the repository's head of 10 September 2026, proves the
asymptotic from the prime number theorem declared as its one axiom; it is
not built or audited in this repository. The formal-conjectures collection
held no statement of the problem on 18 September 2026 and added
ErdosProblems/793.lean on 19 September 2026; at that commit, its variant
stating the constant carries a formal-proof attribute naming the
file Erdos793.lean in Boris Alexeev's repository plby/lean-proofs,
linked above at the pinned commit. That file declares itself a
formalization of this manuscript's result, naming GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra
prompted by Chojecki as the
informal authors and Aristotle and Wouter van Doorn as the formal authors; it
is a port of van Doorn's development that draws the prime number theorem
from the PrimeNumberTheoremAnd project in place of the axiom and records in
a comment that its theorem depends only on the three standard axioms.
Because it declares itself a formalization of the claimant's result, it is a
link on this page and not a claim of its own; it was not built or audited
here. The site's "(Lean)" suffix is its catalog label. The problem page
records the manuscript's eight named statements read for their claims, with
no step checked here; this page rests on no review of its own.
Scope. Full for the site's statement. The proof-claim tab holds a proof claim of 5 August 2026, to which the site gives no kind; its Lean file proves for every , included, that the constant exists, without evaluating it: van Doorn 2026. The convention requiring defines a possibly different function, which the theorem as stated does not address; van Doorn's file proves the same constant for both conventions.
Depends on. No page of this wiki.