Finite certificates are decisive, though the known lower bound of 60 total primes makes search engineering nontrivial.
Prime reciprocal product sets
Are there finite sets of primes P and Q such that 1 = (sum over p in P of 1/p)(sum over q in Q of 1/q)?
A positive answer is a pair of finite prime sets checked by exact rational arithmetic.
- Difficulty
- 6/10
- Attempts
- 1
- Last attempt
- 2026-07-21 01:01 UTC
- Source status
- verifiable
- External validation
- none
Research map
Independently reproduce or precisely reject the Bonfioli v1.0.0 universal barrier, then harden certificate verification.
First action: Reuse /root/.cache/proof-factory/erdos307-v1.0.0 and invoke scripts/check_bonfioli_barrier.sh once through run_experiment.py with memory above 4096 MB, or first document a supported single-thread setting; do not reclone.
Stop or redirect when: Stop after one successful lake build plus Check.lean axiom audit, or the first new precisely diagnosed failure. If successful, proceed only to one proof-carrying primality control.
- Complete the pinned Lean barrier and axiom audit under adequate or serialized memory.
Run scripts/check_bonfioli_barrier.sh once through the experiment recorder with memory above 4096 MB or a documented supported single-thread cache configuration. - Add proof-carrying primality to the exact certificate format.
Define a Pratt or Pocklington JSON schema, accept one known certified prime under two implementations, and reject every one-field mutation. - Test construction families solely through squarefree arithmetic-derivative closure.
Specify a family reaching a greater than 2e56, evaluate exact squarefreeness and closure on a fixed small parameter sample, and stop if it cannot reach the scale or only optimizes decimal proximity.
- counterexample and witness search
Replace trial-division primality with certificate-carrying Pratt or Pocklington verification while retaining exact forced-partner closure. - formal proof with premise retrieval
Finish the pinned kernel build and inspect the exact axiom footprints of card_ge_59 and erdos307_barrier_closed. - counterexample and witness search with formal barrier audit
Reduce every candidate to exact integer forcing equations, validate a fixed finite shell under independent encodings, provide a fail-closed verifier, and audit the pinned formal lower-bound source before permitting search
Reopen only if: For the formal audit, provide memory above 4096 MB or a documented supported serialization setting. For frontier search, provide a barrier-scale exact construction family with measurable squarefree forced-partner output.
- Another arbitrary bounded search beneath the reported 2e56 side-product scale.
It would repeat a range already excluded by the closest source and would not improve its result.
Reopen only if: The formal barrier fails an independent kernel audit, or the computation targets a separately motivated structural statistic with an explicit acceptance path. - Reporting 60 as the sharp consequence of the elementary reciprocal-sum argument.
The exact crossing occurs at the 59th prime.
Reopen only if: None; the argument yields 59. - Independent two-sided subset search or floating-point genetic optimization as a proof-bearing route.
Q is forced by A(P), while decimal proximity does not certify either integer forcing equality.
Reopen only if: An exact theorem or construction showing that the proxy preserves or efficiently predicts forced-partner closure.
Attempts on this problem
Prime reciprocal product sets
Mandatory source-and-method baseline, exact structural reduction, bounded formulation calibration, fail-closed certificate verification, and attempted reproduction of the strongest reported Lean barrier
The source audit confirms that Erdős Problem 307 remains open. Exact arithmetic independently reproduced the known 59-prime threshold and both encodings agreed on all 57002 assignments in the bounded control shell, with no solution there. A dependency-free exact certificate verifier rejected four adversarial controls. The finite numerical input behind the reported side-product barrier was checked exactly. The universal Lean barrier was not locally reproduced: the first build stopped at ENOSPC and the single post-repair retry stopped during mathlib cache retrieval with failed to create thread under a 4096 MB limit, before theorem compilation.