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Let [n]=\{1,\,2,...,\,n\} be colored in k colors. A rainbow AP(k) in [n] is a k term arithmetic progression whose elements have diferent colors. Conlon, Jungic and Radoicic [10] had shown that there exists an equinumerous 4-coloring of [4n]…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Subhajit Jana , Pratulananda Das

We show that for some constant $\beta > 0$, any subset $A$ of integers $\{1,\ldots,N\}$ of size at least $2^{-O((\log N)^\beta)} \cdot N$ contains a non-trivial three-term arithmetic progression. Previously, three-term arithmetic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Zander Kelley , Raghu Meka

Let A be a subset of $\F_p^n$, the $n$-dimensional linear space over the prime field $\F_p$ of size at least $\de N$ $(N=p^n)$, and let $S_v=P^{-1}(v)$ be the level set of a homogeneous polynomial map $P:\F_p^n\to\F_p^R$ of degree $d$, and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Brian Cook , Akos Magyar

A geometric graph is a graph whose vertex set is a set of points in the plane and whose edge set contains straight-line segments. A matching in a graph is a subset of edges of the graph with no shared vertices. A matching is called perfect…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Ahmad Biniaz

For an integer $b\geq 2$, we call a positive integer $b$-anti-Niven if it is relatively prime to the sum of the digits in its base-$b$ representation. In this article, we investigate the maximum lengths of arithmetic progressions of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Ryan Blau , Joshua Harrington , Sarah Lohrey , Eliel Sosis , Tony W. H. Wong

In the Tree Deletion Set problem the input is a graph G together with an integer k. The objective is to determine whether there exists a set S of at most k vertices such that G-S is a tree. The problem is NP-complete and even NP-hard to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Ondrej Suchy

We study subsets of $\mathbb{F}_p^n$ that do not contain progressions of length $k$. We denote by $r_k(\mathbb{F}_p^n)$ the cardinality of such subsets containing a maximal number of elements. In this paper we focus on the case $k=p$ and…

A Galileo sequence \((a_n)\) is a sequence of positive integers whose partial sums $S_n$ satisfy $S_{2n}=kS_n$ for some $k>1$. In this paper we prove that every polynomial Galileo sequence is given by first differences of the form \(a_n=…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-04-24 William Cheah , David Treeby

A $k$-submodular function naturally generalizes submodular functions by taking as input $k$ disjoint subsets, rather than a single subset. Unlike standard submodular maximization, which only requires selecting elements for the solution,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Chenhao Wang

We show that for every $\varepsilon>0$ there is an absolute constant $c(\varepsilon)>0$ such that the following is true. The union of any $n$ arithmetic progressions, each of length $n$, with pairwise distinct differences must consist of at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Shoni Gilboa , Rom Pinchasi

Let $(F_n)$ be the sequence of Fibonacci numbers and, for each positive integer $k$, let $\mathcal{P}_k$ be the set of primes $p$ such that $\gcd(p - 1, F_{p - 1}) = k$. We prove that the relative density $\text{r}(\mathcal{P}_k)$ of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Abhishek Jha , Carlo Sanna

Let $k\ge 1$ be an integer. A positive integer $n$ is $k$-\textit{gleeful} if $n$ can be represented as the sum of $k$th powers of consecutive primes. For example, $35=2^3+3^3$ is a $3$-gleeful number, and $195=5^2+7^2+11^2$ is $2$-gleeful.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Sara Moore , Jonathan P. Sorenson

Denote by $\mathbb{N}$ and $\mathbb{P}$ the set of all positive integers and prime numbers, respectively. Let $\mathbb{P}=\{p_1<p_2<\dots <p_n<\dots\}$, where $p_n$ is the $n$-th prime number. For $k\in\mathbb{N}$ we recursively define…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Piotr Miska , János T. Tóth , Błażej Żmija

More than thirty years ago, Erd\H{o}s, Faudree, Rousseau, and Schelp posed a fundamental question in extremal graph theory: What is the optimal constant $c_k$ such that $r(C_{2k+1}, G) \le c_k m$ for any graph $G$ with $m$ edges and no…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Eng Keat Hng , Meng Ji , Ander Lamaison

For positive integers $n, k, q, p$, let $A_k(n; q, p)$ be the largest integer $N$ such that there exists an edge coloring of $K_N^{(k)}$ with $q$ colors that does not contain a tight monotone path of length $n$ that consists of at most $p$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Jigang Choi , Hyunwoo Lee

For each integer $k \geq 2$, we introduce a sequence of $k$-ary discrete trees constructed recursively by choosing at each step an edge uniformly among the present edges and grafting on "its middle" $k-1$ new edges. When $k=2$, this…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-06 Bénédicte Haas , Robin Stephenson

In this article, we present a family of numerical approaches to solve high-dimensional linear non-symmetric problems. The principle of these methods is to approximate a function which depends on a large number of variates by a sum of tensor…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-26 Eric Cances , Virginie Ehrlacher , Tony Lelievre

New bounds on the number of similar or directly similar copies of a pattern within a finite subset of the line or the plane are proved. The number of equilateral triangles whose vertices all lie within an $n$-point subset of the plane is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Bernardo Abrego , Silvia Fernandez-Merchant , Daniel J. Katz , Levon Kolesnikov

We prove that the gcd of certain infinite number of integers associated to generalised arithmetic progressions remains bounded independent of the progression. Using this we also get bounds on the indices of certain congruence subgroups of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 T. N. Venkataramana

It was shown by V. Bergelson that any set B with positive upper multiplicative density contains nicely intertwined arithmetic and geometric progressions: For each positive integer k there exist integers a,b,d such that $ {b(a+id)^j:i,j…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Mathias Beiglböck
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