Erdős problem 206
Let be a real number. For any let be the maximal sum of distinct unit fractions which is .
Sources
FormalConjectures/ErdosProblems/
206.lean
Retained formal statement
Let be a real number. For any let be the maximal sum of distinct unit fractions which is .
Is it true that, for almost all , for sufficiently large , we have where is minimal such that does not appear in and the right-hand side is ? (That is, are the best underapproximations eventually always constructed in a 'greedy' fashion?)
Kovač [Ko24b] has proved that this is false - in fact as false as possible: the set of for which the best underapproximations are eventually 'greedy' has Lebesgue measure zero.
False ↔ ∀ᵐ (x : ℝ) ∂MeasureTheory.volume.restrict (Set.Ioi 0), Erdos206.EventuallyGreedy x