A Sharp Threshold Bound for Monotone Graph Properties

OpenAI

For every nontrivial increasing graph property on n≥2 vertices invariant under relabeling and 0<ε<1/2, the probability width from ε to 1−ε is at most 2¹⁹ log(1/(2ε))/(log n)².

Sources for this record

What was already known

Friedgut and Kalai proved order 1/log n and identified 1/(log n)² as the conjectured sharp graph scale; later bounds remained short of the exact exponent.

AI involvement AI-led

OpenAI is credited as author and says an internal model produced the mathematical manuscripts and proof artifacts; item-specific autonomy is not documented.

OpenAI is credited as manuscript author and the repository directly attributes the mathematical outputs to its internal model; it does not document the little-or-no-human-input needed for AI-autonomous.

Importance Major

Attains the conjectured graph threshold-width exponent.

Limitations

A published Lean theorem proves the graph statement as scoped. The later hypergraph companion is a separate result; its AI-model review does not establish human checking of this graph theorem.

Technical verification Formal (Lean)

The published Lean source states and proves the graph quantile-width bound under vertex invariance, increasingness, nontriviality, n>=2 and 0<epsilon<1/2. This is a source-reported formal artifact. The later hypergraph theorem has a distinct checking scope.

Formal checking

Problem313.sharp_threshold_width for monotone relabeling-invariant graph properties; Lean theorem proof in OAI/Combinatorics/SharpThreshold/Main.lean against the comparator statement

Checker
Lean 4 artifact published by OpenAI
Scope
Problem313.sharp_threshold_width for monotone relabeling-invariant graph properties
Basis
Reported by the linked checker
Evidence source

Checking a formal statement does not establish that it matches the original problem.

Human understanding Few

No human account explains the graph proof's central argument; this is a default for undocumented human understanding, not a finding that people cannot understand it.

Correction and publication history