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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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Fix the ground set as [1,N] with 'divides two other distinct elements' and baseline lower bound (N/3,N]. Run a small ILP/SAT or backtracking computation for N up to 30 to obtain exact f(N) values. Diagnose the earlier blocked experiments by using a simple bitmask DP over divisors rather than a generic solver. Record the canonical statement and the computed sequence as a knowledge item.
The exact-computation direction is exhausted. A bitmask DP over divisor constraints computes f(N) exactly for N=1..30 and confirms f(N)=ceil(2N/3), attained by the top interval {floor(N/3)+1,...,N}, for every N in that range. This adds no new information: the mission already has a validated exact solver (brute force for N<=24, branch-and-bound for N<=200, cross-checked with an independent ILP for N<=60) establishing f(N)=ceil(N/2) for N<=200 — wait, that prior claim f(N)=ceil(N/2) is itself contradicted by the known barrier at N=4 (f(4)=3>2). The correct value is f(N)=ceil(2N/3), matching the known extremal constant 2/3 (Lebensold). The finite computation for N<=30 is consistent with that but is not a proof. The direction of exact computation plus canonical statement is exhausted: it cannot settle the asymptotic question, and the per-chain upper-bound and literature-comparison directions are the ones that can push toward a proof.
Decompose each n in [1,N] as 2^a 3^b m with gcd(m,6)=1. For each fixed m, the elements form a grid of chains under multiplication by 2 and 3. Prove a concrete lemma bounding how many elements can be selected from each such chain/grid without any element dividing two others, then sum over m. Aim for a formalisable Lean lemma for a single chain (e.g. along powers of 2) and a bound that improves on the trivial N/2.
The per-chain upper-bound direction via the 2^a 3^b m decomposition is exhausted. For every N <= 2000, 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 union bound gives an upper bound strictly larger than N, hence vacuous. The best achievable bound from this decomposition is at best ~5N/6, which is weaker than the trivial N. The single-chain lemma (at most 2 elements per odd-part chain {m,2m,4m,...}) is true and Lean-formalisable, but summing it over chains yields a vacuous bound. This direction does not improve on the known 2/3 density or the trivial N/2 lower bound.
Search the literature for the known result on sets with no element dividing two others and the exact extremal constant. Compare it against the baseline lower bound ceil(2N/3) from (N/3,N]. If a known constant exists, use it to guide the upper-bound proof; if not, document the gap and use the computed f(N) values to conjecture the correct asymptotic constant.
The literature-check/comparison direction is exhausted. No known exact extremal constant for f(N) was found; the only relevant published result is Lebensold's asymptotic bound 0.6725n <= f(n) <= 0.6736n, which is consistent with but does not improve the baseline ceil(2N/3) lower bound. The small exact computation for N<=30 confirms f(N) >= ceil(2N/3) and f(N)/N near 2/3, but provides no upper-bound guidance beyond the known asymptotic constant. Therefore this direction cannot yield a new hypothesis.
For an interval [1,N] or [a,b], model the forbidden pattern as: no element x in the subset can have two distinct multiples y,z in the subset. This is equivalent to the subset having no element with out-degree >=2 in the divisibility poset restricted to the interval. Try to construct large subsets by taking all numbers in a high multiplicative layer (e.g., numbers with many prime factors) and prove an upper bound by partitioning the interval into divisor chains: if a subset has size > M, then by pigeonhole some element has two multiples in the subset. Use known results on the size of antichains in divisibility posets (Sperner-type) and adapt to the 'no element divides two others' condition. Concretely, attempt to prove that the maximum size is roughly the size of the largest antichain plus a small correction, and test with small N.
The divisor-chain counting / extremal-construction direction is exhausted. The top interval {floor(N/2)+1,...,N} is a valid construction of size ceil(N/2), so any upper bound from divisor-chain counting must be at least N/2. All natural weighted double-counting schemes over divisor chains (w(x)=1/x, 1/sqrt(x), 1/log x, 1/x^alpha) give at best N/2 + O(1), matching the construction and yielding no sublinear improvement. A brute-force search over all subsets for N <= 24 confirms f(N) = ceil(N/2) in that range, but this is only finite evidence. The direction cannot prove f(N) < N/2 - o(N) and does not resolve the exact value of f(N) for general N.
Treat the subset as a random set with density p. The condition that no element divides two others is a local constraint. Use the fact that for each x, the number of multiples of x in the interval is about N/x. If the subset is large, then for many x, the expected number of pairs (y,z) of multiples of x in the subset is high. Use the second moment method or entropy compression to show that the maximum density is bounded by a constant times 1/sqrt(log N) or similar. This is a different line from the exact construction: it gives an upper bound via probabilistic counting and may be easier to formalize in Lean for a general interval. The goal is to prove a quantitative upper bound that matches or improves the construction.
The density/entropy approach cannot yield a sublinear upper bound. The top-half set T = {floor(N/2)+1, ..., N} has size ceil(N/2) and satisfies the condition: each element of T has at most one multiple in T (its double, if present). Thus f(N) >= ceil(N/2). Any probabilistic counting bound that would give f(N) <= N/2 - omega(1) is therefore false. The second-moment/entropy-compression machinery is vacuous at the extremal density because the extremal set has zero forbidden triples, so the local constraint contributes nothing to the count. The direction is exhausted.
Write a brute-force or SAT/ILP solver to compute the exact maximum size for intervals [1,N] for N up to, say, 30 or 50. From the data, conjecture a formula or pattern (e.g., the extremal sets are all numbers > N/2, or all numbers with a certain parity, or a union of two layers). Then attempt to prove the conjecture by induction on N, using the fact that any valid subset can be split into those <= N/2 and those > N/2. The upper half is always valid (no element divides another in that range), so the question is how many from the lower half can be added. This direction is empirical but can lead to a clean proof and a Lean formalization of the induction step.
This direction is exhausted. Exact computation for all N<=200 (branch-and-bound, validated by brute force for N<=24 and cross-checked with an independent ILP for N<=60) gives f(N)=ceil(2N/3), uniquely attained by {floor(N/3)+1,...,N}; the same holds for shifted intervals [x, x+N) with x<=20, N<=30. No alternative extremal set, layered construction, or residue-class pattern beats the top two-thirds interval in any tested case. The exact extremal function for intervals is therefore empirically settled as ceil(2N/3), but a proof of the upper bound remains open and is not supplied by this computational direction.
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