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Claim in Erdős problems that formal-conjectures marks solved

A published paper or arXiv preprint answers the main question of Erdős Problem #131 (theorem erdos_131 in formal-conjectures) in full (proof, disproof, or the exact value asked for) with no hypotheses beyond the problem's own.

Problem as stated at github.com/google-deepmind/formal-conjectures/blob/34ee0e3c5fd52d202d62a71094a37970cb5fb870/FormalConjectures/ErdosProblems/131.lean. The claim text is written by Corroborate; that site has not reviewed or endorsed it.

The problem, as stated in formal-conjectures (Apache 2.0):

Let F(N) be the maximal size of A \subseteq \{1, \dots, N\} such that no a \in A divides the sum of any distinct elements of A \setminus \{a\}. Is it true that F(N) > N^{1/2 - o(1)}? The answer is no, by the bound of Pham and Zakharov [PhZa24] (`erdos_131.variants.pham_zakharov`).

References formal-conjectures lists for this problem (a starting point, not evidence):

Verdict: no verdict yet

formal-conjectures marks problem #131 as solved. Those pages say who settled it and how.

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