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A famous result in arithmetic Ramsey theory says that for many linear homogeneous equations $E$ there is a threshold value $R_k(E)$ (the Rado number of $E$) such that for any $k$-coloring of the integers in the interval $[1,n]$, with $n \ge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Jesús A. De Loera , Denae Ventura , Liuyue Wang , William J. Wesley

The 1-2-3 Conjecture, posed by Karo\'{n}ski, {\L}uczak and Thomason, asked whether every connected graph $G$ different from $K_2$ can be 3-edge-weighted so that every two adjacent vertices of $G$ get distinct sums of incident weights. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-02 Jing-zhi Chang , Chao Yang , Zhi-xiang Yin , Bing Yao

It is easy to see that every $k$-edge-colouring of the complete graph on $2^k+1$ vertices contains a monochromatic odd cycle. In 1973, Erd\H{o}s and Graham asked to estimate the smallest $L(k)$ such that every $k$-edge-colouring of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Oliver Janzer , Fredy Yip

We extend classical results of Rado on partition regularity of systems of linear equations with integer coefficients to the case when the coefficient ring is either an arbitrary integral domain or a noetherian ring. In particular, we show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Jakub Byszewski , Elżbieta Krawczyk

A conjecture of N. Terai states that for any integer $k>1$, the equation $x^2+(2k-1)^y =k^z$ has only one solution, namely, $(x, y, z) = (k-1, 1, 2).$ Using the structure of class groups of binary quadratic forms, we prove the conjecture…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Maohua Le , Anitha Srinivasan

Given any integer d >= 3, let k be the smallest integer such that d < 2k log k. We prove that with high probability the chromatic number of a random d-regular graph is k, k+1, or k+2, and that if (2k-1) \log k < d < 2k \log k then the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Dimitris Achlioptas , Cristopher Moore

Given a linear equation $\mathcal{E}$, the $k$-color Rado number $R_k(\mathcal{E})$ is the smallest integer $n$ such that every $k$-coloring of $\{1,2,3,\dots,n\}$ contains a monochromatic solution to $\mathcal E$. The degree of regularity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Yuan Chang , Jesús A. De Loera , William J. Wesley

We prove that if the edges of a graph G can be colored blue or red in such a way that every vertex belongs to a monochromatic k-clique of each color, then G has at least 4(k-1) vertices. This confirms a conjecture of Bucic, Lidicky, Long,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Ron Holzman

We study the number of monochromatic solutions to linear equations in a $2$-coloring of $\{1,\ldots,n\}$. We show that any nontrivial linear equation has a constant fraction of solutions that are monochromatic in any $2$-coloring of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Dingding Dong , Nitya Mani , Huy Tuan Pham , Jonathan Tidor

The study of Ramsey-type problems for linear equations originated with Schur's theorem and was later placed in a systematic framework by Richard Rado. In the off-diagonal setting, one fixes a pair of distinct linear equations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Rajat Adak , Yash Bakshi , L. Sunil Chandran , Saraswati Girish Nanoti

For $k \in \mathbb{N}$, write $S(k)$ for the largest natural number such that there is a $k$-colouring of $\{1,\dots,S(k)\}$ with no monochromatic solution to $x-y=z^2$. That $S(k)$ exists is a result of Bergelson, and a simple example…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Tom Sanders

A system of linear equations $L$ is common over $\mathbb{F}_p$ if, as $n\to\infty$, any 2-coloring of $\mathbb{F}_p^n$ gives asymptotically at least as many monochromatic solutions to $L$ as a random 2-coloring. The notion of common linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Dingding Dong , Anqi Li , Yufei Zhao

For a ring R and system L of linear homogeneous equations, we call a coloring of the nonzero elements of R minimal for L if there are no monochromatic solutions to L and the coloring uses as few colors as possible. For a rational number q…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-09-23 Boris Alexeev , Jacob Fox , Ron Graham

We extend Deuber's theorem on $(m,p,c)$-sets to hold over the multidimensional positive integer lattices. This leads to a multidimensional Rado theorem where we are guaranteed monochromatic multidimensional points in all finite colorings of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Aaron Robertson

In this paper, we provide versions of Van der Waerden's theorem and Rado's theorem for finite colorings of IP-sets and k-IP-sets. Here, by an IP-set we mean a set of integers that contains all finite sums of an infinite subset of N, and we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Raphaël Giordano

A linearly ordered (LO) $k$-colouring of an $r$-uniform hypergraph assigns an integer from $\{1, \ldots, k \}$ to every vertex so that, in every edge, the (multi)set of colours has a unique maximum. Equivalently, for $r=3$, if two vertices…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Tamio-Vesa Nakajima , Stanislav Živný

We show that for $m, r \in \mathbb{N}$ and $N > (2m+1)^r (r!)^{1/m}$, every $r$-coloring of the integers in the interval $[N]$ contains a monochromatic solution to the equation \[ x_1 + \dots + \dots x_{m+1} = y_1 + \dots + y_m. \] This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Rafael Miyazaki , Eion Mulrenin , Cosmin Pohoata , Michael Zheng

We study the number of monochromatic solution to linear equation in $\{1,\dots,n\}$ when we color the set by at least three colors. We consider the $r$-commonness for $r\geq 3$ of linear equation with odd number of terms, and we also prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Laurence P. Wijaya

In 2001, Robertson and Schaal found the 2-color off-diagonal generalized Schur numbers: for two positive integers $k$ and $l$, they determined the smallest positive integer $S = S(k, l)$ such that for any coloring of the integers from 1 to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Don Vestal , Jonathan Sax

For positive integers $a_1,a_2,...,a_m$, we determine the least positive integer $R(a_1,...,a_m)$ such that for every 2-coloring of the set $[1,n]={1,...,n}$ with $n\ge R(a_1,...,a_m)$ there exists a monochromatic solution to the equation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-12-24 Song Guo , Zhi-Wei Sun