import Mathlib namespace OAI namespace TreeEdit universe u /-- A single unit-cost insertion, deletion, or substitution at any position. -/ inductive EditStep {α : Type u} : List α → List α → Prop | insert (p q : List α) (a : α) : EditStep (p ++ q) (p ++ a :: q) | delete (p q : List α) (a : α) : EditStep (p ++ a :: q) (p ++ q) | substitute (p q : List α) (a b : α) : EditStep (p ++ a :: q) (p ++ b :: q) /-- An edit script with no restriction on intermediate word lengths. -/ inductive EditScript {α : Type u} : List α → List α → ℕ → Prop | nil (x : List α) : EditScript x x 0 | cons {x y z : List α} {n : ℕ} : EditStep x y → EditScript y z n → EditScript x z (n + 1) noncomputable def ed {α : Type u} (x y : List α) : ℕ := sInf {n | EditScript x y n} abbrev RealL1 := lp (fun _ : ℕ => ℝ) 1 abbrev Word (α : Type u) (n : ℕ) := {x : List α // x.length = n} namespace BinaryLower /-- The product of the two maximal pairwise distance ratios. -/ noncomputable def distortion {X : Type u} (ρ : X → X → ℝ) (f : X → RealL1) : ℝ := sSup {r : ℝ | ∃ x y : X, x ≠ y ∧ r = ‖f x - f y‖ / ρ x y} * sSup {r : ℝ | ∃ x y : X, x ≠ y ∧ r = ρ x y / ‖f x - f y‖} /-- The infimum over every injective map into the full real sequence space ℓ₁. -/ noncomputable def c1 (X : Type u) (ρ : X → X → ℝ) : ℝ := sInf {D : ℝ | ∃ f : X → RealL1, Function.Injective f ∧ D = distortion ρ f} noncomputable def binarySetDistortion {n : ℕ} (W : Finset (Word Bool n)) : ℝ := c1 {x : Word Bool n // x ∈ W} (fun x y => (ed x.val.val y.val.val : ℝ)) noncomputable def growth (c : ℝ) (d : ℕ) : ℝ := Real.exp (c * Real.sqrt (Real.log (d : ℝ) * Real.log (Real.log (d : ℝ)))) end BinaryLower open BinaryLower /-- The binary lower-bound theorem of OpenAI's September 27, 2026 tree-constructions manuscript: finite equal-length witnesses for every sufficiently large length cap. -/ theorem binary_lower_bound : ∃ c : ℝ, 0 < c ∧ ∃ d₀ : ℕ, ∀ d : ℕ, d₀ ≤ d → ∃ n : ℕ, 1 ≤ n ∧ n ≤ d ∧ ∃ W : Finset (Word Bool n), 2 ≤ W.card ∧ growth c d ≤ binarySetDistortion W := by sorry end TreeEdit end OAI