An Unsure Note on an Un-Schur Problem
Abstract
Graham, R\"odl, and Ruci\'nski originally posed the problem of determining the minimum number of monochromatic Schur triples that must appear in any 2-coloring of the first integers. This question was subsequently resolved independently by Datskovsky, Schoen, and Robertson and Zeilberger. Here we suggest studying a natural anti-Ramsey variant of this question and establish the first non-trivial bounds by proving that the maximum fraction of Schur triples that can be rainbow in a given -coloring of the first integers is at least and at most . We conjecture the lower bound to be tight. This question is also motivated by a famous analogous problem in graph theory due to Erd\H{o}s and S\'os regarding the maximum number of rainbow triangles in any -coloring of , which was settled by Balogh et al.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2410.22024,
title = {An Unsure Note on an Un-Schur Problem},
author = {Olaf Parczyk and Christoph Spiegel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.22024},
year = {2026}
}
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11 pages, 1 figure