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Claim. Call a family of subsets of {1,…,n}\{1,\ldots,n\} admissible for rr when no member contains another and every size that occurs among its members occurs at least rr times, let g(n,r)g(n,r) be the largest number of distinct sizes an admissible family can have, and let n0(r)n_0(r) be the least NN such that g(n,r)=n−3g(n,r)=n-3 for every n>Nn>N. Appendix A of the paper computes

n0(2)=3,n0(3)=8,n_0(2)=3,\qquad n_0(3)=8,

and for larger rr the paper bounds the threshold: Theorem 1.4 gives n0(r)≥2r+2n_0(r)\ge 2r+2 for every r≥4r\ge4, and Theorem 1.5 gives n0(r)≤2r+2log⁡2r+O(log⁡2log⁡2r)n_0(r)\le 2r+2\log_2 r+O(\log_2\log_2 r) for every r≥2r\ge2, so that n0(r)=2r+o(r)n_0(r)=2r+o(r). Under the reading in the Formulation of Problem 776, which asks for estimates of n0(r)n_0(r), these results answer the question; they determine n0(r)n_0(r) exactly only at r=2,3r=2,3, and the exact values for r≥4r\ge4 are the subject of [[problems/set_systems/E0776/claims/2026_07_17_thiim|Thiim's determination of the threshold]] and Ronen's value n_0(4)=12, which rest on this page. Remark 1.2 notes that requiring exactly rr sets of each occurring size, instead of at least rr, gives the same g(n,r)g(n,r). The tools are estimates on central binomial coefficients (Lemma 2.1 and Corollary 2.2, the latter stating that the least mm with (m⌊m/2⌋)≥K≥4\binom{m}{\lfloor m/2\rfloor}\ge K\ge4 satisfies m≤⌈log⁡2K+12log⁡2log⁡2K+2⌉m\le\lceil\log_2 K+\tfrac12\log_2\log_2 K+2\rceil) and explicit constructions that fill the levels of the Boolean lattice; the constructions and the exhaustive search of Appendix A are posted in the companion repository linked above. The source card holds the digest.

Submission note. Posted to the site's forum by Quanyu Tang on 11 February 2026:

  1. This problem also appears in the following volume, which seems to be the original source: P. Erdős, Problem sessions, In: Ordered Sets (Proc. NATO Adv. Study), edited by I. Rival, Dordrecht: Reidel (1981), 860--861.

  2. In [Gu83], Guy writes: "[…\ldots] We have no satisfactory estimate of n0(r)n_0(r). The content of the previous two paragraphs will be a small subset of a forthcoming paper of Erdős, Szemerédi and Trotter." However, I have not been able to locate any related publication in MathSciNet, Google Scholar, the Erdős paper website, or on Trotter's personal homepage.

  3. Let n0(r)n_0(r) be the threshold such that whenever n>n0(r)n>n_0(r) one can achieve n−3n-3 distinct set sizes in such a family. My friend He and I have just written a paper (arXiv:2602.09803v1). By iterating ChatGPT-5.2 Thinking hundreds of times, we made some progress on this problem: n0(2)=3n_0(2)=3 and n0(3)=8n_0(3)=8, and moreover for every integer r≥4r\ge 4 one has

2r+2 ≤ >n0(r) ≤ 2r+2log⁡2r+O(log⁡2log⁡2r).2r+2 \ \le\ > n_0(r)\ \le\ 2r+2\log_2 r + O(\log_2\log_2 r).

(The site has been updated to address this comment.)

Claimant. Yixin He and Quanyu Tang, An Erdős–Trotter problem on antichains with multiplicity rr on each occurring level, arXiv:2602.09803, first version 10 February 2026, second version 21 March 2026, which the arXiv comment marks as the submitted version; the record lists no journal reference. Tang announced the paper in the problem's forum thread on 11 February 2026 and wrote that the results were obtained by iterating ChatGPT-5.2 Thinking; the site's commentary credits the paper with ChatGPT.

Acceptance. None that counts as evidence. The site labels the problem OPEN (page last edited 10 April 2026), although its commentary credits He and Tang [HeTa26b] with the two values and the bounds. The site's curator, Thomas Bloom, wrote in the thread on 10 April 2026 that, the problem being loosely phrased, Bloom was minded to mark it solved and asked for the views of the authors and others; the label was not changed. Commentary on a problem the site labels OPEN is not acceptance, so no reviewed evidence is listed; the paper has no journal record, so no refereed evidence; and no Lean audited by the corpus checks the computation, so no formalized evidence.