proposed
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Candidate claim vc_dcaf7eada589de75 imported from artifact packet cap_61973ee16b553d57
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open_question
proposed confidence
0.99
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agent-imported candidate claim; reviewer acceptance required
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e1271/1271 · statement.attested · reviewer:will-blair · 2026-06-10 · null→null
Reviewable change
back to reviewErdős Problem #189 has status 'disproved (lean)'. Statement: If $\mathbb{R}^2$ is finitely coloured then must there exist some colour class which contains the vertices of a rectangle of every area? Graham, "On Partitions of 𝔼ⁿ", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 28, 89-91 (1980). (See "Concluding Remarks" on page 96.) Solved (with answer `False`, as formalised below) in: Vjekoslav Kovač, "Coloring and density theorems for configurations of a given volume", 2023 https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09973 In fact, Kovač's colouring is even Jordan measurable (the topological boundary of each monochromatic region is Lebesgue measurable and has measure zero). This was formalized in Lean by Alexeev and Kovac using Aristotle. Topics: geometry, ramsey theory. Erdős prize: no. Statement is machine-verified in Lean (formal-conjectures). OEIS: N/A.
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vpr_ddf4c9af93a361f7Candidate claim vc_dcaf7eada589de75 imported from artifact packet cap_61973ee16b553d57null→7dbc09b2vev_160daa5cd32e0949Candidate claim vc_dcaf7eada589de75 imported from artifact packet cap_61973ee16b553d57proposed
reason
Candidate claim vc_dcaf7eada589de75 imported from artifact packet cap_61973ee16b553d57
finding type
open_question
proposed confidence
0.99
confidence basis
agent-imported candidate claim; reviewer acceptance required
provenance
proposed by
agent:erdos-spine-ingest
actor type
agent
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2026-05-30
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inspect finding →Erdős Problem #189 has status 'disproved (lean)'. Statement: If $\mathbb{R}^2$ is finitely coloured then must there exist some colour class which contains the vertices of a rectangle of every area? Graham, "On Partitions of 𝔼ⁿ", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 28, 89-91 (1980). (See "Concluding Remarks" on page 96.) Solved (with answer `False`, as formalised below) in: Vjekoslav Kovač, "Coloring and density theorems for configurations of a given volume", 2023 https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09973 In fact, Kovač's colouring is even Jordan measurable (the topological boundary of each monochromatic region is Lebesgue measurable and has measure zero). This was formalized in Lean by Alexeev and Kovac using Aristotle. Topics: geometry, ramsey theory. Erdős prize: no. Statement is machine-verified in Lean (formal-conjectures). OEIS: N/A.
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