English

Restricted van der Waerden theorem for nilprogressions

Combinatorics 2024-08-27 v1

Abstract

In [Adv. Math., 321 (2017) 269-286], using the theory of ultrafilters, J. H. Johnson Jr., and F. K. Richter proved the nilpotent polynomial Hales-Jewett theorem. Using this result they proved the restricted version of the van der Waerden theorem for nilprogressions of rank 22 and conjectured that this result must hold for arbitrary rank. In this article, we give an affirmative answer to their conjecture.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2408.13974,
  title  = {Restricted van der Waerden theorem for nilprogressions},
  author = {Sayan Goswami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.13974},
  year   = {2024}
}
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