Erdős 1041: add a quantitative unit-disc root-retention variant - #5049
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Small constant perturbations of a monic split polynomial keep every root inside the open unit disc under an explicit margin. This does not settle the path-length conjecture.
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Closes #5048.
1041.leanasks for a path of length less than 2 inside{z | ‖f(z)‖ < 1}joining two roots of a monic polynomial whose roots lie in the unit disc. This PR does not answer that.It adds one formally proved neighbouring lemma:
If every root of
falready lies in a disc of radiusρ < 1, a sufficiently small constant perturbation keeps every root inside the open unit disc. The margin is explicit. The lemma is placed in a secondnamespace Erdos1041block so it does not inherit the open conjecture's bundled hypotheses.Proof:
https://github.com/wcook04/plectis-lean-erdos249-257/blob/f88e8b686908010a43e9078dda49abbabcfc4079/adapters/FormalConjecturesVariants.lean#L178-L186
Repository: https://github.com/wcook04/plectis-lean-erdos249-257
No new
FormalConjecturesForMathlibfile is needed. The statement uses only Mathlib polynomial vocabulary already imported by the problem file. The linked adapter theorem is proposition-identical.This does not produce a short path in the lemniscate and does not settle
erdos_1041. No originality or priority claim is made for perturbation of polynomial roots.AI Usage Disclosure: the linked Lean development and this contribution were produced with AI assistance. I have reviewed the statement identity, the linked proof, and this diff, and I take responsibility for the submission.
Note
This records a solved quantitative variant adjacent to Erdős 1041. The path-length conjecture remains open.