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Monochromatic Translated Product and Answering Sahasrabudhe's Conjecture

Combinatorics 2026-03-17 v3

Abstract

This article resolves two related problems in Ramsey theory on the integers. We show that for any finite coloring of the set of natural numbers, there exist numbers aa and bb for which the configuration {a,b,ab,a(b+1)}\{a, b, ab, a(b+1)\} is monochromatic. By redefining the variables a=xa=x and ab=y,ab=y, our configurations transforms into {x,y,x+y,yx}.\{x,y,x+y,\frac{y}{x}\}. This finding has two main consequences: first, it disproves a conjecture proposed by J. Sahasrabudhe; second, it establishes a quotient version of the long-standing Hindman's conjecture, which asks for a monochromatic set of the form {x,y,x+y,xy}\{x,y,x+y,xy\}.

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@article{arxiv.2412.17868,
  title  = {Monochromatic Translated Product and Answering Sahasrabudhe's Conjecture},
  author = {Sayan Goswami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.17868},
  year   = {2026}
}

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