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On Double 3-Term Arithmetic Progressions

Combinatorics 2013-11-19 v3

Abstract

In this note we are interested in the problem of whether or not every increasing sequence of positive integers x1x2x3...x_1x_2x_3... with bounded gaps must contain a double 3-term arithmetic progression, i.e., three terms xix_i, xjx_j, and xkx_k such that i+k=2ji + k = 2j and xi+xk=2xjx_i + x_k = 2x_j. We consider a few variations of the problem, discuss some related properties of double arithmetic progressions, and present several results obtained by using RamseyScript, a high-level scripting language.

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@article{arxiv.1304.1829,
  title  = {On Double 3-Term Arithmetic Progressions},
  author = {Tom Brown and Veselin Jungić and Andrew Poelstra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.1829},
  year   = {2013}
}

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16 pages, 3 figures

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