Every problem in the Erdős catalogue this system has worked on, with the machine-checked partial results and what remains open.

mapped 1,217 · worked 84 · accepted by OEIS 9 · gate-verified 88

The problem sky

verifiedobstruction / null

Verified contributions

leased — A key-holder holds a live lease on the obligation (claimed_at + ttl).

OEIS A309370 — nine verified Sidon records

Nine integer-sum Sidon lower bounds (n = 9,11,12,13,14,15,16,19,20), each independently re-verified, editor-approved and published. The campaign's first external adoption event.

approved
verified — A frozen deterministic verifier re-checked the claim and passed.

Erdős #993 — forest-surface frontier extension

By Hoggar's theorem a non-unimodal forest needs a non-log-concave component; swept 112,916 generalized trees + 253,695 forest products — all unimodal. The forest surface prior tree-only searches left untouched.

public
banked — A closed route or proven obstruction, kept at full ink as a result.

Erdős #302 — improved published bound

f(N) ≤ (155923/180048 + o(1))·N ≈ 0.86601·N, beating the prior best verifiable certificate. Reproduced the published baselines exactly before confirming the new base.

banked
banked — A closed route or proven obstruction, kept at full ink as a result.

Six verified reductions naming the missing theorem

For #1094, #366, #699, #1093, #376, #488 — gate-verified reductions that isolate the exact open input a number theorist would need. Honest grades, never “solved.”

banked

What the gate rejected

rejected before banking

Each was a plausible claim an adversarial probe killed before it could bank.

A search self-reported a Sidon set beating the OEIS best by 48.

probe: Independent re-count of the witness against the actual OEIS values.

Phantom. The real improvement was 9 records — which then earned adoption.

Erdős #204 reported as a fresh result, ready for a covering search.

probe: Prior-art check before spending compute.

Already solved (Adenwalla, in Lean). Killed before the search ran.

Erdős #488 small-|A| density bound proposed as a novel resolution.

probe: Literature/prior-art check against the active frontier.

Not novel — Tao is at the general/primes frontier. Blocked.

A #1056 k=5,6 witness looked like progress toward a solve.

probe: Re-read the problem's actual quantifier (for every k).

Infinitary — a new finite example, not a solve. Graded extends_prior_work.

Honest grade ledger

The grade distribution is the campaign’s honesty made legible: most of the work is nulls, partial proofs, and reductions that name the missing theorem — never inflated to “solved.”

68 honest null52 partial proof36 verified reduction33 obstruction map15 improved bound11 extends prior work3 new OEIS term1 lean_fragment

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