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Strong copies inside a level family.

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B3Free.exists_strongCopy_levelFamily

by raver1975 Β· Sep 10, 2026 Β· Mathlib c5ea003 (Lean v4.30.0)

aether-catalogbridges

Strong copies inside a level family. If S realizes at least d + 1 levels of 2^[n], then 𝓛(S) contains a strong copy of B_d.

theorem B3Free.exists_strongCopy_levelFamily{d : β„•} {S : Finset β„•}
    (hS : d + 1 ≀ (S.filter (Β· ≀ Fintype.card Ξ±)).card) :
    βˆƒ ΞΉ : BoolLat d β†’ Finset Ξ±, IsStrongCopy ΞΉ ∧ βˆ€ X, ΞΉ X ∈ levelFamily Ξ± S := by sorry

Formalization Note Transplanted verbatim from the Aether Catalog source Bridges/B3FreeFamiliesLevels.lean; the statement is byte-identical to the source declaration, elaborated with autoImplicit disabled in the platform environment.

Preamble
-- Thm stub generated from Bridges/B3FreeFamiliesLevels.lean
import Mathlib
import Definitions.Def_Bridges_B3FreeFamilies
import Definitions.Def_Bridges_B3FreeFamiliesLevels
/-
Copyright (c) 2025 Harmonic. All rights reserved.
Released under Apache 2.0 license.

# Level (size-determined) families and the exact level-restricted extremal number

This file continues `Catalog/Bridges/B3FreeFamilies.lean` and
`Catalog/Bridges/B3FreeFamiliesBounds.lean`, which set up the framework of weak/strong
`P`-free families surrounding the paper *On the maximum size of `B_3`-free families*.

The paper's headline result is that `La(n, B_3) β‰₯ (3 + Ξ΅) C(n, ⌊n/2βŒ‹)` for some absolute
`Ξ΅ > 0`, i.e. that the three-layer construction is *not* optimal.  Here we prove a
complementary structural statement: **no improvement at all can come from a family that is
determined by the sizes of its sets** β€” equivalently, from a family invariant under the
permutations of the ground set.  Among all such families the `d` central layers are exactly
optimal.

## Main results

* `levelFamily` β€” the family of all subsets whose size lies in a prescribed set `S` of
  levels, and `card_levelFamily : |𝓛(S)| = βˆ‘_{i ∈ S} C(n, i)`.
* `exists_strongCopy_levelFamily` β€” if `S` contains `d + 1` levels that are realized in
  `2^[n]`, then `𝓛(S)` contains a *strong* copy of `B_d`.  The levels need **not** be
  consecutive; this generalizes `exists_strongCopy_layers`.
* `levelFamily_weakFree_iff`, `levelFamily_strongFree_iff` β€” `𝓛(S)` is weak (strong)
  `B_d`-free **iff** at most `d` levels of `S` are realized.
* `sum_choose_le_sum_choose_window` β€” for a unimodal binomial row, any `d` levels have total
  weight at most that of `d` consecutive levels around the middle.
* `card_levelFamily_le_layers`, `level_extremal` β€” **exact level-restricted
  extremal number**: a weak `B_d`-free level family has at most `|layers Ξ± a d|` sets, for
  the central window `a`, and this is attained.
* `symmetric_weakFree_card_le`, `symmetric_weakFree_card_le_mul` β€” the same bound for every
  permutation-invariant weak `B_d`-free family, and the clean corollary
  `|F| ≀ d Β· C(n, ⌊n/2βŒ‹)`: the `Ξ΅`-improvement of the paper must break the symmetry of the
  cube.
* `La_boolLat_eq_two_pow_of_lt`, `LaStar_boolLat_eq_two_pow_of_lt` β€” the degenerate range
  `n < d`, where the whole power set is `B_d`-free.
* `strongFree_boolLatOne_iff`, `LaStar_boolLatOne_eq` β€” Sperner's theorem also for the
  strong extremal function, `La*(n, B_1) = C(n, ⌊n/2βŒ‹)`.
-/


open B3Free

open Finset

variable {Ξ± : Type*} [DecidableEq Ξ±] [Fintype Ξ±]

/-! ## Level families -/






/-! ## A weak copy of `B_d` realizes `d + 1` distinct levels -/



/-! ## A strong copy of `B_d` spread over `d + 1` arbitrary levels -/


variable {d : β„•}








/-! ## Which level families are `B_d`-free -/
Formal statement
theorem B3Free.exists_strongCopy_levelFamily{d : β„•} {S : Finset β„•}
    (hS : d + 1 ≀ (S.filter (Β· ≀ Fintype.card Ξ±)).card) :
    βˆƒ ΞΉ : BoolLat d β†’ Finset Ξ±, IsStrongCopy ΞΉ ∧ βˆ€ X, ΞΉ X ∈ levelFamily Ξ± S := by sorry
Source
https://github.com/paulklemstine/Lean/blob/53c2925a02/Catalog/Bridges/B3FreeFamiliesLevels.lean#L311

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