import Mathlib /-! # Problem 3: Two-stage stick cutting game Lean 4 + Mathlib formalisation scaffold. The elementary algebra relating the alternating gap to Liu's odd-position share, and the closed-form simplification of the answer, are fully proved. The two deep finite-combinatorial lemmas (subset-sum pairing upper bound and binary-tree/multigraph lower bound) are stated with `sorry`. -/ set_option autoImplicit false namespace Problem3 /-- Alternating gap of a list already sorted in nonincreasing order. -/ def altGap : List ℝ → ℝ | [] => 0 | [x] => x | x :: y :: xs => x - y + altGap xs /-- Sum of entries in odd positions (positions 1,3,5,...). -/ def oddSum : List ℝ → ℝ | [] => 0 | [x] => x | x :: _y :: xs => x + oddSum xs /-- `sum + alternating gap = 2 × odd-position sum`. -/ theorem sum_add_altGap_eq_two_oddSum : ∀ xs : List ℝ, xs.sum + altGap xs = 2 * oddSum xs | [] => by simp [altGap, oddSum] | [x] => by simp [altGap, oddSum] | x :: y :: xs => by simp [altGap, oddSum, sum_add_altGap_eq_two_oddSum xs] ring /-- Odd-position sum in terms of total mass and alternating gap. -/ theorem oddSum_eq_half_sum_add_gap (xs : List ℝ) : oddSum xs = (xs.sum + altGap xs) / 2 := by have h := sum_add_altGap_eq_two_oddSum xs linarith /-- The small residual allowed by Xiang's subset-sum construction. -/ def delta (n : ℕ) : ℝ := 1 / ((2 : ℝ)^(n+1) - 1) /-- Claimed minimax value before simplification. -/ def claimedValue (n : ℕ) : ℝ := (1 + delta n) / 2 /-- Closed form of the answer. -/ theorem claimedValue_closed_form (n : ℕ) : claimedValue n = (2 : ℝ)^n / ((2 : ℝ)^(n+1) - 1) := by unfold claimedValue delta rw [pow_succ] have hden : (2 : ℝ)^n * 2 - 1 ≠ 0 := by positivity field_simp [hden] ring /-- If all but residual mass `R` can be grouped into equal pairs, the second player can secure one member of every pair, so the first player receives at most `(total + R)/2`. -/ theorem paired_mass_upper_bound (total residual firstShare : ℝ) (hbound : firstShare ≤ (total - residual) / 2 + residual) : firstShare ≤ (total + residual) / 2 := by linarith /-- Subset-sum core of Xiang's upper bound. Among the `2^(n+1)` subset sums, two distinct sums differ by at most `delta n`; deleting their common indices gives disjoint subsets with nonempty symmetric difference. -/ theorem disjoint_subset_close_sums (n : ℕ) (a : Fin (n+1) → ℝ) (hnonneg : ∀ i, 0 ≤ a i) (hsum : ∑ i, a i = 1) : ∃ P Q : Finset (Fin (n+1)), Disjoint P Q ∧ (P ∪ Q).Nonempty ∧ |(∑ i ∈ P, a i) - (∑ i ∈ Q, a i)| ≤ delta n := by sorry /-- A finite sequence is written in nonincreasing order. -/ def IsDescending {m : ℕ} (x : Fin m → ℝ) : Prop := ∀ i j, i.1 ≤ j.1 → x j ≤ x i /-- Lower-bound combinatorial core. The final pieces are indexed in nonincreasing order by `x`. `origin j` records which initial binary piece produced the final piece `j`. The mass condition says that the pieces of origin `i` sum to `2^i`. If at most `n` extra cuts were made, then `m ≤ 2n+1`, and the alternating gap is at least `1`. -/ theorem binary_partition_altGap_lower_bound (n m : ℕ) (x : Fin m → ℝ) (origin : Fin m → Fin (n+1)) (hxnonneg : ∀ j, 0 ≤ x j) (hxsorted : IsDescending x) (hm : m ≤ 2*n + 1) (hmass : ∀ i : Fin (n+1), (∑ j : Fin m, if origin j = i then x j else 0) = (2 : ℝ)^i.1) : 1 ≤ altGap (List.ofFn x) := by sorry /-- Once matching lower and upper bounds are available, the value is fixed. -/ theorem value_from_matching_bounds (n : ℕ) (v : ℝ) (hlower : claimedValue n ≤ v) (hupper : v ≤ claimedValue n) : v = (2 : ℝ)^n / ((2 : ℝ)^(n+1) - 1) := by have hv : v = claimedValue n := le_antisymm hupper hlower rw [hv, claimedValue_closed_form] end Problem3