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feat: formalize Green's Open Problem 82 - #5067

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Formalises Ben Green's open problem 82 (how many zeros a cosine polynomial on ℝ/ℤ must have) and the known bounds from the comments (Borwein–Erdélyi–Ferguson–Lockhart, Juškevičius–Sahasrabudhe, Sahasrabudhe, Bedert).

Convention: cos(aθ) on ℝ/ℤ is (fourier a θ).re, i.e. cos(2π a θ). The open item is minNumCosineZeros, not the disproved guess n-1.

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  • lake --wfail build 'FormalConjectures.GreensOpenProblems.«82»'
  • One file: FormalConjectures/GreensOpenProblems/82.lean

Fixes #1737

Statement of Ben Green's open problem 82 (Littlewood's cosine zeros)
plus the known bounds from the comments, as sorry-theorems.

Fixes google-deepmind#1737
@github-actions github-actions Bot added the green-problems Problems from https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/greenbj/papers/open-problems.pdf label Aug 20, 2026
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Green's Open Problems #82

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