Sets avoiding a rainbow solution to the generalized Schur equation
Combinatorics
2025-06-23 v1
Abstract
A classical result in combinatorial number theory states that the largest subset of avoiding a solution to the equation is of size . For all integers , we prove multicolored extensions of this result where we maximize the sum and product of the sizes of sets avoiding a rainbow solution to the Schur equation . Moreover, we determine all the extremal families.
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@article{arxiv.2506.17117,
title = {Sets avoiding a rainbow solution to the generalized Schur equation},
author = {Ervin Győri and Zhen He and Zequn Lv and Nika Salia and Casey Tompkins and Kitti Varga and Xiutao Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.17117},
year = {2025}
}