Some New Exact van der Waerden Numbers
Combinatorics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
For positive integers the van der Waerden number is the least positive integer such that whenever is partitioned into sets , there is some so that contains a -term arithmetic progression. We find several new exact values of . In addition, for the situation in which only one value of differs from 2, we give a precise formula for the van der Waerden function (provided this one value of is not too small)
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@article{arxiv.math/0507019,
title = {Some New Exact van der Waerden Numbers},
author = {Bruce Landman and Aaron Robertson and Clay Culver},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0507019},
year = {2007}
}
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11 pages