Erdős problem 70
Erdős Problem 70: Let be the cardinality of the continuum, let be a countable ordinal, and let . Is it true that ?
Sources
FormalConjectures/ErdosProblems/
70.lean
Retained formal statement
Trivial boundary case: .
This is trivially true because in a 3-uniform hypergraph, a \"blue clique of size 3\" consists of a single 3-element subset (), so the blue alternative merely asks for one blue triple to exist. The proof splits into two cases: - If any blue triple exists, it is itself a blue-monochromatic set of cardinality 3. - If no blue triple exists, all triples are red, and since , any subset of order type is red-monochromatic.
The problem becomes non-trivial only for ; see omega_times_two_four for the simplest genuinely open case.
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