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Monochromatic sums and products

Number Theory 2018-11-05 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

Suppose that Fp\mathbb{F}_p is coloured with rr colours. Then there is some colour class containing at least crp2c_r p^2 quadruples of the form (x,y,x+y,xy)(x, y , x + y, xy).

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1510.08733,
  title  = {Monochromatic sums and products},
  author = {Ben Green and Tom Sanders},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.08733},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

48 pages, accepted for publication in Discrete Analysis. Second version has minor changes arising from the referee report. Third version updated to DAJ format. in Discrete Analysis 2016:5

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