Effectiveness of Hindman's theorem for bounded sums
Logic
2016-03-29 v1
Abstract
We consider the strength and effective content of restricted versions of Hindman's Theorem in which the number of colors is specified and the length of the sums has a specified finite bound. Let denote the assertion that for each -coloring of there is an infinite set such that all sums for and have the same color. We prove that there is a computable -coloring of such that there is no infinite computable set such that all nonempty sums of at most elements of have the same color. It follows that is not provable in and in fact we show that it implies in . We also show that there is a computable instance of with all solutions computing . The proof of this result shows that implies in .
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@article{arxiv.1603.08249,
title = {Effectiveness of Hindman's theorem for bounded sums},
author = {Damir D. Dzhafarov and Carl G. Jockusch, and Reed Solomon and Linda Brown Westrick},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.08249},
year = {2016}
}