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Every radial level is crossed on the root sheet

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Erdos1041.Counterexample.bottleneck_sheet_crossing

by willcook · Sep 28, 2026 · Mathlib c5ea003 (Lean v4.30.0)

degree-seven-counterexampleerdos-1041polynomial-lemniscate

Under the stated covering, near-slit and component hypotheses, a preconnected set K containing distinct roots b₁ and b₂ meets the slit-domain sheet through b₁ at every distance r from cc in [r₀, |b₁−cc|).

Preamble
import Definitions.Def_ErdosProblems_Erdos1041_Counterexample_Defs
import Definitions.Def_ErdosProblems_Erdos1041_Counterexample_BarrierAlgebra
import Definitions.Def_ErdosProblems_Erdos1041_Counterexample_BarrierGraphs
import Definitions.Def_ErdosProblems_Erdos1041_Counterexample_BarrierSigns
import Definitions.Def_ErdosProblems_Erdos1041_Counterexample_Bottleneck
import Definitions.Def_ErdosProblems_Erdos1041_Counterexample_InstanceBarriers
import Definitions.Def_ErdosProblems_Erdos1041_Counterexample_InstanceCritical
import Definitions.Def_ErdosProblems_Erdos1041_Counterexample_InstanceConnectivity
import Definitions.Def_ErdosProblems_Erdos1041_Counterexample_HausdorffLength
import Mathlib
import Mathlib.Algebra.Polynomial.Derivative
import Mathlib.Algebra.Polynomial.Div
import Mathlib.Algebra.Polynomial.Roots
import Mathlib.Analysis.Calculus.Deriv.Polynomial
import Mathlib.Analysis.Real.Pi.Bounds
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Complex.Log
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Tactic
import Mathlib.Tactic.ComputeDegree
import Mathlib.Tactic.NormNum
import Mathlib.Tactic.Ring
import Mathlib.Topology.Connected.LocallyConnected
import Mathlib.Topology.Connected.PathConnected
import Mathlib.Topology.EMetricSpace.BoundedVariation
import Mathlib.Topology.MetricSpace.Contracting
import Mathlib.Topology.Order.IntermediateValue

/-! External source: ani, erdosproblems.com forum thread 1041, 7 Sept 2026. -/

/-!
# Erdős #1041 with length as one-dimensional Hausdorff measure

Formal Conjectures states Erdős #1041 with the length of a path defined as the
one-dimensional Hausdorff measure `μH[1]` of its image. `erdos1041_counterexample`
bounds the total variation of a parametrisation instead. This module proves the
Hausdorff form for the same polynomial `f`, and in a stronger shape: every
preconnected subset of the strict lemniscate `Ω(f)` that contains two distinct
roots has one-dimensional Hausdorff measure greater than two
(`erdos1041_counterexample_hausdorff`). The image of any path joining two roots
is such a set.

The argument reuses the bottleneck geometry of `Bottleneck.lean` and adds no
arc-extraction, rectifiability or length-of-arc lemma. Removing the slit
preimage from the component of `Ω(f)` through the critical point leaves an open
set in which no preconnected subset contains both roots, because the polynomial
restricted there is a covering of a simply connected base. So a preconnected
set `K` through both roots must, for every radius between the slit preimage and
a root, meet the circle of that radius about the critical point inside the
connected component of that root (`bottleneck_sheet_crossing`). The two
components are disjoint open sets, the distance to the critical point is
1-Lipschitz, and on the real line `μH[1]` is Lebesgue measure, so `μH[1] K` is at
least the sum of the two radial lengths (`s3_bottleneck_hausdorff`). That is the
same bound `s3_bottleneck_length` gives for total variation, so the numerical
margin of `Assembly.lean` applies unchanged.

`erdos1041_hausdorff_negation` and `erdos1041_hausdorff_answer_false` state the
Formal Conjectures parent `Erdos1041.erdos_1041` in its own vocabulary, with
`fcLength` its `length`, and refute it.

The mathematics of the counterexample is ani's. The polynomial is the single
member `s = 10⁻⁶` of ani's family fixed in `Defs.lean`.
-/

noncomputable section

open scoped ENNReal
open MeasureTheory Polynomial Metric


/-! ## The slit domain separates the two roots -/





/-! ## Crossing every circle inside each sheet -/

open Erdos1041.Counterexample

Formal statement
theorem Erdos1041.Counterexample.bottleneck_sheet_crossing (p : Polynomial ℂ) (cc : ℂ) (hv : p.eval cc ≠ 0)
    (hcover : IsCoveringMap (bottleneckSlitProjection p cc))
    (b₁ b₂ : ℂ) (hne : b₁ ≠ b₂) (hr₁ : p.IsRoot b₁) (hr₂ : p.IsRoot b₂)
    (hb₁ : b₁ ∈ connectedComponentIn (Omega p) cc)
    (r₀ : ℝ)
    (hnear : ∀ z ∈ connectedComponentIn (Omega p) cc,
      p.eval z ∈ bottleneckSlit (p.eval cc) → ‖z - cc‖ < r₀)
    (K : Set ℂ) (hK : IsPreconnected K)
    (hKsub : K ⊆ connectedComponentIn (Omega p) cc)
    (hK₁ : b₁ ∈ K) (hK₂ : b₂ ∈ K)
    (r : ℝ) (hr : r ∈ Set.Ico r₀ ‖b₁ - cc‖) :
    ∃ z ∈ K ∩ connectedComponentIn (bottleneckSlitDomain p cc) b₁, ‖z - cc‖ = r := by sorry
Source
Lean source: https://github.com/wcook04/plectis-erdos-lean/blob/cc7e541cf2081c6fef5a5e377d52e365e33b01eb/ErdosProblems/Erdos1041/Counterexample/HausdorffLength.lean#L86-L170 Construction by ani: https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/1041#post-8861 Related paper and provenance: https://github.com/wcook04/plectis-erdos/blob/551bae6dc6e732cf85172d66323c8d2bc77ba962/paper/1041/erdos-1041-lemniscate-newton-flow.tex#L25-L99 Paper prior-art bibliography: https://github.com/wcook04/plectis-erdos/blob/551bae6dc6e732cf85172d66323c8d2bc77ba962/paper/1041/erdos-1041-lemniscate-newton-flow.tex#L1662-L1772 AI-assisted formalization in Will Cook's project; ani is credited for the degree-seven construction. Independent correspondence of the 1958 Problem 5 wording to this modern formulation is unrecorded.

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