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Monochromatic solutions to $x+y=z^2$ in the interval $[N,cN^4]$

Number Theory 2018-09-26 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Green and Lindqvist proved that for any 2-colouring of N\mathbb{N}, there are in\-fi\-ni\-tely many monochromatic solutions to x+y=z2x+y=z^2. In fact, they showed the existence of a monochromatic solution in every interval [N,cN8][N,cN^8] with large enough NN. In this short note we give a different proof for their theorem and prove that a monochromatic solution exists in every interval [N,104N4][N,10^4N^4] with large enough NN. A 2-colouring of [N,(1/27)N4][N,(1/27)N^4] avoiding monochromatic solutions to x+y=z2x+y=z^2 is also presented, which shows that in 104N410^4N^4 only the constant factor can be reduced.

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@article{arxiv.1805.06279,
  title  = {Monochromatic solutions to $x+y=z^2$ in the interval $[N,cN^4]$},
  author = {Péter Pál Pach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.06279},
  year   = {2018}
}