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Reasonable Bounds for Combinatorial Lines of Length Three

Combinatorics 2024-11-25 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We prove that any subset A[3]nA \subseteq [3]^n with 3nA(loglogloglogn)c3^{-n}|A| \ge (\log\log\log\log n)^{-c} contains a combinatorial line of length 33, i.e., x,y,zAx, y, z \in A, not all equal, with xi=yi=zix_i=y_i=z_i or (xi,yi,zi)=(0,1,2)(x_i,y_i,z_i)=(0,1,2) for all i=1,2,,ni = 1, 2, \dots, n. This improves on the previous best bound of 3nAΩ((logn)1/2)3^{-n}|A| \ge \Omega((\log^* n)^{-1/2}) of [D.H.J. Polymath, Ann. of Math. 2012].

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@article{arxiv.2411.15137,
  title  = {Reasonable Bounds for Combinatorial Lines of Length Three},
  author = {Amey Bhangale and Subhash Khot and Yang P. Liu and Dor Minzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.15137},
  year   = {2024}
}
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