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If the second cyclotomic block is a prime times a square, its first factor is a square or three times a square

Proved
OddPerfectNumber.Kernel.second_block_first_half_sq_or_three_sq

by WillR · Sep 30, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

factorizationnumber-theoryperfect-numbers

Let ppp be a prime with p≡1(mod4)p \equiv 1 \pmod 4p≡1(mod4) and put A=(p+1)/2A = (p+1)/2A=(p+1)/2, B=p2−p+1B = p^2-p+1B=p2−p+1. If the product ABA BAB is a prime ccc times a perfect square, then AAA is either a perfect square or three times a perfect square.

Indeed the accepted child OddPerfectNumber.Kernel.second_block_gcd_dvd_three (0e45b51d) gives gcd⁡AB∣3\gcd A B \mid 3gcdAB∣3, so the only prime that can divide both blocks is 333. The square relation AB=cy2A B = c y^2AB=cy2 says that exactly one prime, namely ccc, occurs to odd multiplicity in ABA BAB. Because the odd multiplicities of AAA and BBB multiply to ccc, precisely one of the two blocks is a square. The block BBB cannot be a square, since (p−1)2<p2−p+1<p2(p-1)^2 < p^2-p+1 < p^2(p−1)2<p2−p+1<p2 for p>1p > 1p>1. Hence AAA carries all the odd multiplicity, and since the only prime that may be shared is 333, the odd-multiplicity prime of AAA is ccc and dividing AAA by the possible single factor 333 leaves a square. This is the elementary shape forced on the first factor of the second cyclotomic block whenever the block is a prime times a square; it is the arithmetic content of the k=5k=5k=5 two-prime residual.

Preamble
import Mathlib
Formal statement
namespace OddPerfectNumber.Kernel

theorem second_block_first_half_sq_or_three_sq (p c y : Nat) (hp : p.Prime) (hp4 : p % 4 = 1)
    (hc : c.Prime) (hy : ((p + 1) / 2) * (p ^ 2 - p + 1) = c * y ^ 2) :
    (exists z : Nat, (p + 1) / 2 = z ^ 2) ∨ (exists z : Nat, (p + 1) / 2 = 3 * z ^ 2) := by
  sorry

end OddPerfectNumber.Kernel
Source
Mathlib/Data/Nat/Factorization/Defs.lean (Nat.factorization_mul, Nat.factorization_eq_zero_of_not_dvd) and Mathlib/Data/Nat/GCD/Basic.lean, together with the accepted children OddPerfectNumber.Kernel.second_block_gcd_dvd_three (0e45b51d-915a-4c31-bec6-b2f945374870) and OddPerfectNumber.Kernel.coprime_sq_factor_right. The interval non-square fact for p2−p+1p^2-p+1p2−p+1 is the second component of the accepted OddPerfectNumber.Kernel.five_cyclotomic_factors_ne_square (648a7dc4). Elementary exponent-parity bookkeeping plus gcd control by 3; it encodes no unproved conjecture.

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