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A density version of the Halpern-L\"{a}uchli theorem

Combinatorics 2014-10-23 v2

Abstract

We prove a density version of the Halpern-L\"{a}uchli Theorem. This settles in the affirmative a conjecture of R. Laver. Specifically, let us say that a tree TT is homogeneous if TT has a unique root and there exists an integer b\meg2b\meg 2 such that every tTt\in T has exactly bb immediate successors. We show that for every d\meg1d\meg 1 and every tuple (T1,...,Td)(T_1,...,T_d) of homogeneous trees, if DD is a subset of the level product of (T1,...,Td)(T_1,...,T_d) satisfying lim supnD(T1(n)×...×Td(n))T1(n)×...×Td(n)>0 \limsup_{n\to\infty} \frac{|D\cap \big(T_1(n)\times ... \times T_d(n)\big)|}{|T_1(n)\times ... \times T_d(n)|}>0 then there exist strong subtrees (S1,...,Sd)(S_1, ..., S_d) of (T1,...,Td)(T_1,...,T_d) having common level set such that the level product of (S1,...,Sd)(S_1,...,S_d) is a subset of DD.

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@article{arxiv.1006.2671,
  title  = {A density version of the Halpern-L\"{a}uchli theorem},
  author = {Pandelis Dodos and Vassilis Kanellopoulos and Nikolaos Karagiannis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.2671},
  year   = {2014}
}

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27 pages, no figures; Advances in Mathematics, to appear

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