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A finite or infinite matrix $A$ is image partition regular provided that whenever $\mathbb N$ is finitely colored, there must be some $\vec{x}$ with entries from $\mathbb N$ such that all entries of $A\vec{x}$ are in some color class. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-05 Sourav Kanti Patra , Ananya Shyamal

The first part of the paper is a brief overview of Hindman's finite sums theorem, its prehistory and a few of its further generalizations, and a modern technique used in proving these and similar results, which is based on idempotent…

General Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Denis I. Saveliev

In the paper, we search for monochromatic infinite additive structures involving polynomials over $\mathbb{N}$. It is proved that for any $r\in \mathbb{N}$, any two distinct natural numbers $a,b$, and any $2$-coloring of $\mathbb{N}$, there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Zhengxing Lian , Rongzhong Xiao

We prove that for any coloring of the naturals using two colors there are monochromatic sets of the form $\{x,y,xy,x+iy:i\leq k\}$ and $\{x,y,x^y,xy^i:i\leq k\}$ for any $k$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Ryan Alweiss , Matthew Bowen , Marcin Sabok

A system of linear equations with integer coefficients is partition regular over a subset S of the reals if, whenever S\{0} is finitely coloured, there is a solution to the system contained in one colour class. It has been known for some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Ben Barber , Neil Hindman , Imre Leader , Dona Strauss

For any set $A$ of natural numbers with positive upper Banach density and any $k\geq 1$, we show the existence of an infinite set $B\subset{\mathbb N}$ and a shift $t\geq0$ such that $A-t$ contains all sums of $m$ distinct elements from $B$…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Bryna Kra , Joel Moreira , Florian K. Richter , Donald Robertson

Inspired by a question of Kra, Moreira, Richter, and Robertson, we prove two new results about infinite polynomial configurations in large subsets of the rational numbers. First, given a finite coloring of $\mathbb{Q}$, we show that there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Ethan Ackelsberg

Given a natural $n$, we construct a two-coloring of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with the maximum metric satisfying the following. For any finite set of reals $S$ with diameter greater than $5^{n}$ such that the distance between any two consecutive…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Valeriya Kirova , Arsenii Sagdeev

Recent results of Hindman, Leader and Strauss and of the second author and Rinot showed that some natural analogs of Hindman's Theorem fail for all uncountable cardinals. Results in the positive direction were obtained by Komj\'ath, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Lorenzo Carlucci , David J. Fernández-Bretón

For any set $A$ of natural numbers with positive upper Banach density, we show the existence of an infinite set $B$ and sequences $(t_k)_{k\in \mathbb{N}}, (s_k)_{k\in \mathbb{N}}$ of natural numbers such that $\left\{ \sum_{n \in F}n : F…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Felipe Hernández , Ioannis Kousek , Tristán Radić

We prove that if the set of unordered pairs of real numbers is colored by finitely many colors, there is a set of reals homeomorphic to the rationals whose pairs have at most two colors. Our proof uses large cardinals and it verifies a…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Dilip Raghavan , Stevo Todorcevic

We develop novel techniques which allow us to prove a diverse range of results relating to subset sums and complete sequences of positive integers, including solutions to several longstanding open problems. These include: solutions to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-03 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Huy Tuan Pham

Ramsey's theorem states that for any coloring of the n-element subsets of N with finitely many colors, there is an infinite set H such that all n-element subsets of H have the same color. The strength of consequences of Ramsey's theorem has…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Ludovic Patey

We show that for any set $S\subseteq \mathbb{Z}$, $|S|=4$ there exists a 3-coloring of $\mathbb{Z}$ in which every translate of $S$ receives all three colors. This implies that $S$ has a codensity of at most $1/3$, proving a conjecture of…

Hirst investigated a slight variant of Hindman's Finite Sums Theorem -- called Hilbert's Theorem -- and proved it equivalent over $\RCA_0$ to the Infinite Pigeonhole Principle for all colors. This gave the first example of a natural…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Lorenzo Carlucci

Folkman's Theorem asserts that for each $k \in \mathbb{N}$, there exists a natural number $n = F(k)$ such that whenever the elements of $[n]$ are two-coloured, there exists a set $A \subset [n]$ of size $k$ with the property that all the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-28 József Balogh , Sean Eberhard , Bhargav Narayanan , Andrew Treglown , Adam Zsolt Wagner

Recently, using machinery's from Ergodic theory, Z. Lian, and R. Xiao proved if $P$ is any polynomial with no constant term, then for every finite coloring of $\mathbb{N}$, there exists two infinite subsets $B,C$ of $\mathbb{N}$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Sayan Goswami

A proper infinite parallelepiped (IP) set in a semigroup is an infinite set consisting of a sequence $\myseq{a}$ and its finite sums, or a superset of such a set. Hindman's theorem asserts that the proper IP sets of natural numbers are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Yonatan Gadot , Boaz Tsaban

A finite or infinite matrix $A$ is image partition regular provided that whenever $\mathbb N$ is finitely colored, there must be some $\vec{x}$ with entries from $\mathbb N$ such that all entries of $A\vec{x}$ are in some color class. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-17 Sourav Kanti Patra , Swapan Kumar Ghosh

Ramsey's theorem for pairs asserts that every 2-coloring of the pairs of integers has an infinite monochromatic subset. In this paper, we study a strengthening of Ramsey's theorem for pairs due to Erdos and Rado, which states that every…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-07-13 Emanuele Frittaion , Ludovic Patey