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e1271/1271 · statement.attested · reviewer:will-blair · 2026-06-10 · null→null

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Erdős Problem #307 has status 'verifiable'. Statement: Are there two finite set of primes $P$ and $Q$ such that $$ 1 = \left( \sum_{p \in P} \frac{1}{p} \right) \left( \sum_{q \in Q} \frac{1}{q} \right) $$ ? Asked by Barbeau [Ba76]. [Ba76] Barbeau, E. J., _Computer challenge corner: Problem 477: A brute force program._ Topics: number theory, unit fractions. Erdős prize: no. Statement is machine-verified in Lean (formal-conjectures). OEIS: N/A.

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    reviewer:erdos-db-trustreviewer:erdos-db-trust · 2026-05-30

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    External corroboration of frontier difficulty: AlphaProof Nexus (DeepMind, arXiv 2605.22763, May 2026) attempted Erdős #307 (listed in erdos_problems_attempted.txt of google-deepmind/alphaproof-nexus-results@0647711a7118) and did not solve it (9 of 242 attempted Erdős problems solved). Their Lean formalization of the statement lives in google-deepmind/formal-conjectures. Treat as evidence the open obligations here are genuine, not low-hanging.

    reviewer:will-blairreviewer:will-blair · 2026-06-10

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    agent — machine actor, no signing keyapplied · agent:erdos-spine-ingest · 2026-05-30

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    External corroboration of frontier difficulty: AlphaProof Nexus (DeepMind, arXiv 2605.22763, May 2026) attempted Erdős #307 (listed in erdos_problems_attempted.txt of google-deepmind/alphaproof-nexus-results@0647711a7118) and did not solve it (9 of 242 attempted Erdős problems solved). Their Lean formalization of the statement lives in google-deepmind/formal-conjectures. Treat as evidence the open obligations here are genuine, not low-hanging.

    agent — machine actor, no signing keyapplied · agent:nexus-ingest-2026-06-10 · 2026-06-10

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finding.noted · reviewer:will-blair · 2 days

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