/- Copyright (c) 2026 Terence Tao. All rights reserved. Released under Apache 2.0 license as described in the file LICENSE. Authors: Terence Tao -/ import Sendov.FiniteRange.Cover import Sendov.LargeDegree.Endgame /-! # The numerical claim, for every degree This is the top of the development. `Sendov.Defs` fixes the notation of equation `stat` of the blog post; everything else establishes that its right-hand side `R n α` is below `1`. Two arguments meet here. * `Sendov.finite_range_le_100` certifies `5 ≤ n ≤ 100` by explicit polynomial arithmetic: the integral is a finite sum of moments, the moments come from a packed recurrence, and each of 31 batches of degrees carries one Bernstein certificate in `α`. * `Sendov.large_degree` covers `n ≥ 101` analytically: the integral is bounded by a Beta integral plus a geometric tail, the resulting elementary bound `U` is shown decreasing in the degree, and its value at `n = 101` is below `1` by one more Bernstein certificate. The two ranges overlap in intent but not in method, and the seam is at `100/101` rather than at the `97/98` of the blog post: the finite side was pushed three degrees further so that the analytic side would start with margin `0.122` instead of `0.048`. ## Main statements * `Sendov.stat_lt_one`: `R n α < 1` for every `n ≥ 5`, `0 ≤ α ≤ 17` with `c ^ 2 ≤ A`; * `Sendov.stat_contradiction`: equation `stat` of the blog post is therefore unsatisfiable. -/ namespace Sendov variable {α : ℝ} /-- **The numerical claim.** The right-hand side of equation `stat` of the blog post is strictly less than `1` for every degree `n ≥ 5` and every `0 ≤ α ≤ 17` satisfying the feasibility constraint `c ^ 2 ≤ A`. -/ theorem stat_lt_one {n : ℕ} (hn : 5 ≤ n) (hα : 0 ≤ α) (hα' : α ≤ 17) (hfeas : c n α ^ 2 ≤ A n α) : R n α < 1 := by rcases Nat.lt_or_ge n 101 with h | h · exact finite_range_le_100 hn (by omega) hα hα' hfeas · exact large_degree h hα hα' hfeas /-- **Equation `stat` is unsatisfiable.** This is the form in which the blog post uses the claim: the polynomial argument there produces `1 ≤ R n α` under exactly these hypotheses, so the assumed counterexample to Sendov's conjecture cannot exist. -/ theorem stat_contradiction {n : ℕ} (hn : 5 ≤ n) (hα : 0 ≤ α) (hα' : α ≤ 17) (hfeas : c n α ^ 2 ≤ A n α) (hstat : 1 ≤ R n α) : False := absurd hstat (not_le.2 (stat_lt_one hn hα hα' hfeas)) end Sendov