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In a celebrated article, Moreira proved for every finite coloring of the set of naturals, there exists a monochromatic copy of the form $\{x,x+y,xy\},$ which gives a partial answer to one of the central open problems of Ramsey theory asking…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Sayan Goswami

We show that for every coloring of the rationals into finitely many colors, one of the colors contains a set of the form $\{x,y,xy,x+y\}$ for some nonzero $x$ and $y$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Matt Bowen , Marcin Sabok

The theorem of factorisation forests shows the existence of nested factorisations -- a la Ramsey -- for finite words. This theorem has important applications in semigroup theory, and beyond. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Thomas Colcombet

An (additive) commutative monoid is called atomic if every given non-invertible element can be written as a sum of atoms (i.e., irreducible elements), in which case, such a sum is called a factorization of the given element. The number of…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Henry Jiang , Shihan Kanungo , Harry Kim

A finite word $u$ is called closed if its longest repeated prefix has exactly two occurrences in $u,$ once as a prefix and once as a suffix. We study the function $f_x^c:\mathbb N \rightarrow \mathbb N$ which counts the number of closed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Olga Parshina , Luca Zamboni

In this article, we show that the Kamae-Xue complexity function for an infinite sequence classifies eventual periodicity completely. We prove that an infinite binary word $x_1x_2 \cdots $ is eventually periodic if and only if…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-04-18 Teturo Kamae , Dong Han Kim

The Hales-Jewett Theorem states that given any finite nonempty set $\A$ and any finite coloring of the free semigroup $S$ over the alphabet $\A$ there is a {\it variable word\/} over $\A$ all of whose instances are the same color. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-05 Neil Hindman , Dona Strauss , Luca Q. Zamboni

In [A. Frid, S. Puzynina, L.Q. Zamboni, \textit{On palindromic factorization of words}, Adv. in Appl. Math. 50 (2013), 737-748], it was conjectured that any infinite word whose palindromic lengths of factors are bounded is ultimately…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Michelangelo Bucci , Gwenaël Richomme

Let $k,a\in \mathbb{N}$ and let $p_1,\cdots,p_k\in \mathbb{Q}[n]$ with zero constant term. We show that for any finite coloring of $\mathbb{Q}$, there are non-zero $x,y\in \mathbb{Q}$ such that there exists a color which contains a set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Rongzhong Xiao

We colour every point x of a probability space X according to the colours of a finite list x_1, ...., x_k of points such that each of the x_i, as a function of x, is a measure preserving transformation. We ask two questions about a…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-05-28 Robert Samuel Simon , Grzegorz Tomkowicz

In this paper we prove that for any finite coloring of N there are lambda,rho in N such that infinitely many pairs (x,y),(u,v) in N^2 satisfy the sets {lambda x, lambda y, x y, lambda(x+y)} and {u+rho, v+rho, u v+rho, u+v} being…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Wen Huang , Song Shao , Tianyi Tao , Rongzhong Xiao , Ningyuan Yang

We show that, for every $r, k$, there is an $n = n(r,k)$ so that any $r$-coloring of the edges of the complete graph on $[n]$ will yield a monochromatic complete subgraph on vertices ${a + \sum_{i \in I} d_i \mid I \subseteq [k]}$ for some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-01 Andy Parrish

A set of points $S$ in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ is called \textit{Ramsey} if any finite partition of $\mathbb{R}^{\infty}$ yields a monochromatic copy of $S$. While characterization of Ramsey set remains a major open problem in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Vojtěch Rödl , Marcelo Sales

We present a short ultrafilter proof of the existence of monochromatic exponential triples $\{a, b, b^a\}$ in any finite coloring of the natural numbers. The proof is given from scratch and uses only Ramsey's theorem, the notion of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Mauro Di Nasso , Mariaclara Ragosta

Suppose that we have a finite colouring of the reals. What sumset-type structures can we hope to find in some colour class? One of our aims is to show that there is such a colouring for which no uncountable set has all of its pairwise sums…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-21 Neil Hindman , Imre Leader , Dona Strauss

We prove a theorem ensuring that the compositions of certain Ramsey families are still Ramsey. As an application, we show that in any finite coloring of $\mathbb{N}$ there is an infinite set $A$ and an as large as desired finite set $B$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Matt Bowen

Hindman's finite sums theorem states that in any finite coloring of the naturals, there is an infinite sequence all of whose finite subset sums are the same color. In 1979, Hindman showed that there is a finite coloring of the naturals so…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Ryan Alweiss

In the paper we prove, in particular, that for any measurable coloring of the euclidian plane into two colours there is a monochromatic triangle with some restrictions on the sides. Also we consider similar problems in finite fields…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-24 Ilya D. Shkredov

Ramsey theory for words over a finite alphabet was unified in the work of Carlson and Furstenberg-Katznelson. Carlson, in the same work, outlined a method to extend the theory for words over an infinite alphabet, but subject to a fixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-03 Vassiliki Farmaki , Andreas Koutsogiannis

A word $w$ is said to be closed if it has a proper factor $x$ which occurs exactly twice in $w$, as a prefix and as a suffix of $w$. Based on the concept of Ziv-Lempel factorization, we define the closed $z$-factorization of finite and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Marieh Jahannia , Morteza Mohammad-noori , Narad Rampersad , Manon Stipulanti