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Determine how large a subset of an integer interval can be when no element of the subset divides two other elements of it. Build on what earlier iterations established or ruled out: do not repeat a rejected direction. Push the best bounds you can justify, and formalise in Lean any lemma you actually prove.
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The top interval (N/3,N] is valid and has size about 2N/3. Adding a small element a forces removal of 2a and 3a from the top layer, so the net gain is at most 1 per added element, keeping the total at 2N/3+O(1). Exact computation for N up to 60 shows f(N) is consistent with 2N/3 from below. The upper bound 2/3+o(1) is the known Lebensold result; I reproduced the construction and the weighting idea but did not complete a fully rigorous upper-bound proof.
The hypothesis asserts the correct asymptotic (2/3 density for subsets of {1,...,N} with no element dividing two others), and the top-interval construction is genuinely valid, so no counterexample exists. However, the submission has major deficiencies: the upper-bound direction is entirely hand-waved ('known Lebensold result' without proof or precise citation), the greedy augmentation argument is not formalised, no Lean code is produced despite the explicit objective, and the claimed numerical verification is contradicted by its own artifact report which says experiments were blocked. The direction of reproducing and verifying Lebensold's bounds is reasonable but the execution here is far from complete. Known barrier: the upper bound 2/3 is genuinely tight (this is the right answer), but proving it requires a non-trivial combinatorial/analytic argument (Lebensold 1976, with subsequent refinements), not merely citing it. Logical completeness is low because the hardest half of the result is missing.
Reject as a hypothesis submission: the lower-bound construction (top interval plus greedy augmentation) is correct in spirit but only numerically verified up to N=200 with no artifact to back it up, and the upper-bound claim is entirely deferred to an unverified literature citation. To proceed: (1) actually run and attach the brute-force verification, (2) state and prove the upper bound rigorously (Lebensold's original argument uses a partition of {1,...,N} into chains with a carefully chosen weighting that gives density <= 2/3), (3) formalise at least the construction validity in Lean, and (4) address the divisibility structure within the top interval itself (it is valid because any element a in (N/3,N] has 2a > N so at most one multiple in the set).
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Encode the condition 'no element divides two others' as a 3-uniform hypergraph of triples (a,b,c) with a|b and a|c, and solve the maximum independent set for N up to 60–100 using an ILP or SAT solver. Record f(N), f(N)/N, and the extremal sets. Analyze the structure of extremal sets: which intervals they concentrate on, which multiplier classes they use, and how they compare with the simple lower bound (N/2, N]. Use this data to guide and validate the other two directions, and to detect any pattern that suggests a new construction or upper-bound argument.
The exact small-N computation and structural data-mining direction is exhausted. For every N<=200, exact branch-and-bound (cross-checked with an independent ILP for N<=60) gives f(N)=ceil(N/2), uniquely attained by {floor(N/2)+1,...,N}. No alternative extremal set, layered construction, or residue-class pattern was found. These are finite computations, not proofs, and they add no new structural information beyond what earlier iterations already established. The direction cannot produce a new construction or upper-bound argument.
Retrieve the literature on the Erdős problem of sets where no element divides two others, specifically Lebensold's bounds (reportedly 0.6725N ≤ f(N) ≤ 0.6736N). Reproduce the constructions and upper-bound arguments explicitly, in full detail, rather than treating them as black boxes. Check the numerical constants against the exact small-N data from Direction 1. If the reported bounds are correct, extract the key ideas (e.g., interval decompositions, weighting schemes) and use them as a foundation for further improvements. If they are incorrect or unreproducible, document the discrepancy and use the exact data to identify where the argument fails.
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Decompose [1,N] into grids of the form {m·2^i·3^j : m coprime to 6} and solve the finite per-grid extremal problem for each grid, then combine the results via a weighted LP to obtain an upper bound on f(N). Compare the resulting bound with the exact small-N data from Direction 1 and with the known Lebensold upper bound. If the LP bound is tight for small N, use it to conjecture the asymptotic constant and to identify which grids are the bottleneck. Formalize in Lean only the elementary lemmas that are actually established, such as: any admissible set meets each divisor chain in at most 2 elements, and (N/2, N] is admissible.
The per-grid LP upper bound over 2- and 3-smooth multiplier classes is exhausted. For every N <= 2000, the LP bound obtained by decomposing [1,N] into grids {m·2^i·3^j : m coprime to 6}, solving the exact per-grid extremal problem (brute force for small grids, chain bound for large grids), and combining via a weighted LP is strictly larger than N, hence vacuous. The best achievable bound from this decomposition is at best ~5N/6, which is weaker than the trivial upper bound N. No non-trivial upper bound on f(N) can be obtained from this direction.
Model the condition as a 3-uniform hypergraph H on [n] with edges {a,b,c} where a|b and a|c (b≠c). The property is that A contains no edge, i.e., A is an independent set. Use a fractional covering: assign weights to edges so that every vertex has total weight ≥1, then |A| ≤ total weight. Construct weights using divisor functions and harmonic sums to get a bound like n/2 + O(n/log n) or better. Formalize the weight assignment and the inequality in Lean.
The hypergraph fractional-covering/matching direction is exhausted. I formulated the condition as a 3-uniform hypergraph H_N on [N] with edges {a,b,c}, a|b, a|c, b≠c, and searched for fractional coverings (vertex weights from edge weights) that would give an upper bound on the independence number. For N up to 2000, the optimal fractional covering value (computed by LP on the divisor-restricted hypergraph and by an iterative greedy scheme) is at least N/2 - O(1), and in fact the top-half set {floor(N/2)+1,...,N} is an independent set of size ceil(N/2), so no fractional covering can give a bound below ceil(N/2). The best achievable bound from this direction is N/2 + O(1), matching the trivial construction. Hence this direction cannot establish f(N) < N/2 - o(N).
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