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C_19: record the unverified upper bounds 0.4395 and 0.423 - #188

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This updates the Berry–Esseen page ($C_{19}$) with two recent upper bounds, both marked unverified (asterisk), following the convention for bounds whose verification is at a minimal level.

Changes

  • constants/19a.md: two new rows in Known upper bounds, two references, and a comment on verification status.
  • README.md: the $C_{19}$ upper-bound cell now reads 0.4690 (0.423*), and two lines are added to Recent progress.

The bounds

Bound Source Status
$0.4395^*$ H. Xiao and C. Li, haonan-xiao/iid-berry-esseen (10 Sep 2026) Lean 4 formalization; finite certificates checked with native_decide
$0.423^*$ Y. Lin, CoolRmal/BerryEsseen (13 Sep 2026) Lean 4 formalization of berryEsseenConstant ≤ 0.423; finite certificates checked with native_decide

For $0.423$: #print axioms on the final theorem reports propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound and 579 auxiliary axioms introduced by native_decide, with no sorry and no user-declared axiom. The proof builds on the analytic framework of Xiao and Li (moment coordinates, cosine profile, sine-circle and stop-loss estimates, Prawitz normalization) and does not use Shevtsova's published bound. A readable proof document is at paper/upper-0423.pdf in that repository.

Caveats

  • Neither bound has been refereed or published, and neither has been checked with leanprover/comparator.
  • Both rely on native_decide, so they trust Lean's compiler in addition to its kernel.
  • The $0.423$ proof was developed with substantial AI assistance (the underlying computer-assisted argument with OpenAI Codex, the Lean formalization with Claude Code).

Please adjust the wording or the verification marking as you see fit.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

Add Xiao and Li's 0.4395 and the 0.423 bound of CoolRmal/BerryEsseen to the
Berry–Esseen page, both marked unverified: each is a GitHub repository with a
Lean 4 formalization whose finite certificates use native_decide, neither has
been run through leanprover/comparator, and neither is refereed. The 0.423
proof builds on Xiao and Li's analytic framework. Update the README table and
Recent progress.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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