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The explicit $k=2^{75}$ theorem supplies the requested containment cover with budget one half for every product-measure parameter and arbitrary family, allowing repeated tuple members. Relabelling handles all finite nonempty ground sets; for the empty ground set the exceptional family is empty.
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Talagrand discrete convexity conjecture
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Talagrand discrete convexity: The paper claims a universal number of family members whose unions leave only a small containment-cover obstruction, provided the original Bernoulli measure is sufficiently close to one. The cover cost is bounded at the original density.Mathematical statement of the claimed result
Mathematical claim 1.
Let $k=2^{75}$ and $\mu_p$ be product Bernoulli measure on $2^{[N]}$. For every $N\ge1$, $0<p<1$, and arbitrary family $\mathcal D$, define $E_k(\mathcal D)=\{S:S\nsubseteq D_1\cup\cdots\cup D_k\text{ for every }D_1,\ldots,D_k\in\mathcal D\}$. Repetitions among the $D_i$ are allowed. The theorem claims \[\mu_p(\mathcal D)\ge1-1/k\quad\Longrightarrow\quad\exists\mathcal G:\ E_k(\mathcal D)\subseteq\{S:\exists I\in\mathcal G,\ I\subseteq S\},\quad\sum_{I\in\mathcal G}p^{|I|}\le1/2.\] No increasingness or disjointness hypothesis is imposed on $\mathcal D$.Outline of the argument
Talagrand discrete convexity: A biased orthogonal expansion produces nonnegative subset weights with a global budget. A signed many-row identity turns failure of a union cover into a large higher-power sum of those weights. Large weights give cheap generators directly, while weighted-degree selection and random unions cover the remaining classes; a final density transfer gives the universal union count.Formal verification
Family 175 describes Lean coverage for the integral/fractional threshold comparison and the discrete-convexity statement; graph decomposition is a later separate consequence.Talagrand discrete convexity: The manuscript links TalagrandDiscreteConvexity.lean (declaration OAI.TalagrandDiscreteConvexity.talagrand_discrete_convexity), TalagrandExpectationThreshold.lean (declaration OAI.TalagrandThreshold.talagrand_expectation_threshold_equivalence).
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- OpenAI, Talagrand's discrete-convexity conjecture, 2026-09-23; citation key
OAI:Talagrands-discrete-convexity-conjecture-September-23-2026. PDF (GitHub); PDF (direct); Manuscript page and citation; Latest version; Statement source: thm:main. - Family 175: Lean scope.
- Comparator TalagrandDiscreteConvexity.json.
- Comparator TalagrandDiscreteConvexity.lean.
- Comparator TalagrandExpectationThreshold.json.
- Comparator TalagrandExpectationThreshold.lean.
- OpenAI catalogue entry.