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import FormalConjectures.Util.ProblemImports

/-!
# Erdős Problem 884

*References:*
- [erdosproblems.com/884](https://www.erdosproblems.com/884)
- [Tao25](https://terrytao.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/erdos-884.pdf)
-/



namespace Erdos884

/--
`divisors_increasing n` is the increasingly ordered list of divisors of `n`.
By convention, we set `divisors_increasing 0 = ∅`.
As a `Finset`, this is the same as `Nat.divisors`
-/
abbrev divisors_increasing (n : ℕ) : List ℕ := (List.range (n + 1)).filter (· ∣ n)

abbrev sum_inv_of_divisor_pair_differences (n : ℕ) : ℚ :=
∑ j : Fin ((divisors_increasing n).length), ∑ i : Fin j,
(1 : ℚ) / ((divisors_increasing n)[j] - (divisors_increasing n)[i])

abbrev sum_inv_of_consecutive_divisors (n : ℕ) : ℚ :=
∑ i : Fin ((divisors_increasing n).length - 1),
(1 : ℚ) / ((divisors_increasing n)[i.val + 1] - (divisors_increasing n)[i.val])

/--
For a natural number n, let `1 = d₁ < ⋯ < d_{τ(n)} = n` denote the divisors of n
in increasing order.
Does it hold that
`∑ 1 ≤ i < j ≤ τ(n), 1 / (d_j - d_i) ⟪ 1 + ∑ 1 ≤ i < τ(n), 1 / (d_{i + 1} - d_i)`
for `n → ∞`, i.e.
`∑ 1 ≤ i < j ≤ τ(n), 1 / (d_j - d_i) ∈ O (1 + ∑ 1 ≤ i < τ(n), 1 / (d_{i + 1} - d_i))`?

In September 2025, Terence Tao gave a conditional _negative_ answer to this conjecture,
disproving it under the assumption of the *Qualitative Hardy-Littlewood Conjecture*,
See [here](https://terrytao.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/erdos-884.pdf).
However, the conjecture itself remains open.
-/
@[category research open, AMS 11]
theorem erdos_884 :
sum_inv_of_divisor_pair_differences =O[Filter.atTop] (1 + sum_inv_of_divisor_pair_differences) := by
sorry


end Erdos884