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Polychromatic Colorings on the Integers

Combinatorics 2020-06-12 v2

Abstract

We show that for any set SZS\subseteq \mathbb{Z}, S=4|S|=4 there exists a 3-coloring of Z\mathbb{Z} in which every translate of SS receives all three colors. This implies that SS has a codensity of at most 1/31/3, proving a conjecture of Newman [D. J. Newman, Complements of finite sets of integers, Michigan Math. J. 14 (1967) 481--486]. We also consider related questions in Zd\mathbb{Z}^d, d2d\geq 2.

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@article{arxiv.1704.00042,
  title  = {Polychromatic Colorings on the Integers},
  author = {Maria Axenovich and John Goldwasser and Bernard Lidický and Ryan R. Martin and David Offner and John Talbot and Michael Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.00042},
  year   = {2020}
}

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16 pages, improved presentation

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