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Monochromatic infinite sumsets

Combinatorics 2017-07-26 v1

Abstract

We show that there is a rational vector space VV such that, whenever VV is finitely coloured, there is an infinite set XX whose sumset X+XX+X is monochromatic. Our example is the rational vector space of dimension sup{0,20,220,}\sup\{\aleph_0,2^{\aleph_0},2^{2^{\aleph_0}},\ldots\,\}. This complements a result of Hindman, Leader and Strauss, who showed that the result does not hold for dimension below ω\aleph_\omega. So our result is best possible under GCH.

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@article{arxiv.1707.08071,
  title  = {Monochromatic infinite sumsets},
  author = {Imre Leader and Paul A. Russell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.08071},
  year   = {2017}
}
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