Skip to content

Erdős problem 214

Let S⊂R2S\subset \mathbb{R}^2 be such that no two points in SS are distance 11 apart. Must the complement of SS contain four points which form a unit square?

Sources

The source's own material, retained exactly.

6 retained statements36c6d0fef71a

Open selected source

FormalConjectures/ErdosProblems/

214.lean

Retained formal statement5 of 6

The answer is yes, proved by Juhász [Ju79], who proved more generally that the complement of SS must contain a congruent copy of any set of four points.

FormalConjectures/ErdosProblems/214.leanErdos214.erdos_214.variants.juhasz1 lineExact file
Erdos214.HasRedCopies 4
SolvedStatement only, no proof