A simple proof of the density Hales-Jewett theorem
Combinatorics
2014-10-23 v2
Abstract
We give a purely combinatorial proof of the density Hales--Jewett Theorem that is modeled after Polymath's proof but is significantly simpler. In particular, we avoid the use of the equal-slices measure and work exclusively with the uniform measure.
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@article{arxiv.1209.4986,
title = {A simple proof of the density Hales-Jewett theorem},
author = {Pandelis Dodos and Vassilis Kanellopoulos and Konstantinos Tyros},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.4986},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
12 pages, no figures; International Mathematics Research Notices, to appear