Tu-Deng Conjecture

formal-conjectures · paper · ams-5 · ams-11 · ams-94

**The Tu-Deng conjecture.** For $k \ge 2$ and a nonzero residue $t$ modulo $2^k - 1$, there
are at most $2^{k-1}$ pairs of residues $(a, b)$ with $a + b = t$ whose binary weights
(of their representatives in $0, \dots, 2^k - 2$) sum to at most $k - 1$.

Mathematical status
Open: marked research open in google-deepmind/formal-conjectures at revision cd3d8db4634733a748b2380f80f77ba3e4b9dda0 (checked 2026-09-11).

Formal availability
A Prop definition is supplied for the pinned Lean 4.33.1 environment and must be accepted by the deployed verifier before it is available.

Sources and provenance
Upstream reference cited by formal-conjectures (checked 2026-09-11): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-010-9413-9
Upstream reference cited by formal-conjectures (checked 2026-09-11): https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/272
Formal statement provenance (Apache-2.0) (checked 2026-09-11): https://github.com/google-deepmind/formal-conjectures/blob/cd3d8db4634733a748b2380f80f77ba3e4b9dda0/FormalConjectures/Paper/TuDengConjecture.lean
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**The Tu-Deng conjecture.** For $k \ge 2$ and a nonzero residue $t$ modulo $2^k - 1$, there are at most $2^{k-1}$ pairs of residues $(a, b)$ with $a + b = t$ whose binary weights (of their representatives in $0, \dots, 2^k - 2$) sum to at most $k - 1$.

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