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We show that if $N \geq \exp(\exp(\exp (k^{O(1)})))$, then any $k$-colouring of the primes that are less than $N$ contains a monochromatic solution to $p_1 - p_2 = p_3 -1$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Ruoyi Wang

For a subspace $W$ of a vector space $V$ of dimension $n$, the Schur-product space $W^{\langle k\rangle}$ for $k \in \mathbb{N}$ is defined to be the span of all vectors formed by the component-wise multiplication of $k$ vectors in $W$. It…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Brett Hemenway Falk , Nadia Heninger , Michael Rudow

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

Let $f_r(k)$ be the smallest positive integer $n$ such that every $r$-coloring of $\{1,2,...,n\}$ has a monochromatic solution to the nonlinear equation \[1/x_1+\cdots+1/x_k=1/y,\] where $x_1,...,x_k$ are not necessarily distinct. Brown and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Collier Gaiser

If $S$ is a subset of an abelian group $G$, the polychromatic number of $S$ in $G$ is the largest integer $k$ so that there is a $k-$coloring of the elements of $G$ such that every translate of $S$ in $G$ gets all $k$ colors. We determine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Emelie Curl , John Goldwasser , Joe Sampson , Michael Young

Let $G$ be a finite abelian group with exponent $n$, and let $r$ be a positive integer. Let $A$ be a $k\times m$ matrix with integer entries. We show that if $A$ satisfies some natural conditions and $|G|$ is large enough then, for each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Oriol Serra , Lluís Vena

The set of sums of two squares plays a significant role in elementary number theory. In this article, we establish the existence of several rich monochromatic configurations in the natural numbers by exploiting algebraic structures induced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Arpita Ghosh , Surojit Ghosh

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

Recently S. Goswami proved that whenever the set $\mathbb N$ of natural numbers is finitely colored, the set $\{a, b, ab, b(a+1)\}$ is monochromatic which also established a variant of the long-standing Hindman's conjecture, which asks for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Md Moid Shaikh , Sourav Kanti Patra , Mukesh Kumar

We construct for every integer $k\geq 3$ and every real $\mu\in(0, \frac{k-1}{k})$ a set of integers $X=X(k, \mu)$ which, when coloured with finitely many colours, contains a monochromatic $k$-term arithmetic progression, whilst every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Christian Reiher , Vojtěch Rödl , Marcelo Sales

In 1995, Erd\H{o}s and Gy\'arf\'as proved that in every $2$-colouring of the edges of $K_n$, there is a vertex cover by $2\sqrt{n}$ monochromatic paths of the same colour, which is optimal up to a constant factor. The main goal of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Marlo Eugster , Frank Mousset

Let V(n) be the minimum number of monochromatic 3-term arithmetic progressions in any 2-coloring of {1,2,...,n}. We show that (1675/32768) n^2 (1+o(1)) <= V(n) <= (117/2192) n^2(1+o(1)). As a consequence, we find that V(n) is strictly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-12-18 Pablo A. Parrilo , Aaron Robertson , Dan Saracino

Given any $r$-edge coloring of $K_{n,n}$, how large is the maximum (over all $r$ colors) sized monochromatic subgraph guaranteed to be? We give answers to this problem for $r \leq 8$, when $r$ is a perfect square, and when $r$ is one less…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Charles Gong

Let $G$ be a graph. For a given positive integer $d$, let $f_G(d)$ denote the largest integer $t$ such that in every coloring of the edges of $G$ with two colors there is a monochromatic subgraph with minimum degree at least $d$ and order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yair Caro , Raphael Yuster

Given an equation, the integers $[n] = \{1, 2, \dots, n\}$ as inputs, and the colors red and blue, how can we color $[n]$ in order to minimize the number of monochromatic solutions to the equation, and what is the minimum? The answer is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Kevin P. Costello , Gabriel Elvin

A graph coloring has bounded clustering if each monochromatic component has bounded size. Equivalently, it is a partition of the vertices into induced subgraphs with bounded size components. This paper studies clustered colorings of graphs,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Chun-Hung Liu , David R. Wood

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

A b-coloring of a graph $G$ is a coloring of its vertices such that every color class contains a vertex that has neighbors in all other classes. The b-chromatic number of $G$ is the largest integer $k$ such that $G$ has a b-coloring with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Frédéric Maffray , Artur Mesquita Barbosa

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

For a set of positive integers $A \subseteq [n]$, an $r$-coloring of $A$ is rainbow sum-free if it contains no rainbow Schur triple. In this paper we initiate the study of the rainbow Erd\H{o}s-Rothchild problem in the context of sum-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Yangyang Cheng , Yifan Jing , Lina Li , Guanghui Wang , Wenling Zhou