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Van der Waerden's theorem asserts that if you color the natural numbers with, say, five different colors, then you can always find arbitrarily long sequences of numbers that have the same color and that form an arithmetic progression.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-06 Heinrich-Gregor Zirnstein

We present a self-contained proof of a strong version of van der Waerden's Theorem. By using translation invariant filters that are maximal with respect to inclusion, a simple inductive argument shows the existence of "piecewise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Mauro Di Nasso

Recall that van der Waerden's theorem states that any finite coloring of the naturals has arbitrarily long monochromatic arithmetic sequences. We explore questions about the set of differences of those sequences.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-12 João Guerreiro , Imre Z. Ruzsa , Manuel Silva

We present results on the existence of long arithmetic progressions in the Thue-Morse word and in a class of generalised Thue-Morse words. Our arguments are inspired by van der Waerden's proof for the existence of arbitrary long…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Ibai Aedo , Uwe Grimm , Yasushi Nagai , Petra Staynova

In this project we show the existence of arbitrary length arithmetic progressions in model sets and Meyer sets in the Euclidean $d$-space. We prove a van der Waerden type theorem for Meyer sets. We show that pure point subsets of Meyer sets…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Anna Klick , Nicolae Strungaru , Adi Tcaciuc

In this article, we investigate polynomial generalizations of the van der Waerden theorem with a focus on largeness properties of recurrence patterns. We prove an $IP_r^\star$-strengthened version of the polynomial van der Waerden theorem,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Sayan Goswami

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

A $\textit{ladder}$ is a set $S \subseteq \mathbb Z^+$ such that any finite coloring of $\mathbb Z$ contains arbitrarily long monochromatic progressions with common difference in $S$. Van der Waerden's theorem famously asserts that $\mathbb…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Aaron Berger

Ultrafilters are very useful and versatile objects with applications throughout mathematics: in topology, analysis, combinarotics, model theory, and even theory of social choice. Proofs based on ultrafilters tend to be shorter and more…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-10-17 Jakub Konieczny

Van der Waerden's classical theorem on arithmetic progressions states that for any positive integers k and r, there exists a least positive integer, w(k,r), such that any r-coloring of {1,2,...,w(k,r)} must contain a monochromatic k-term…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bruce Landman , Aaron Robertson

We determine asymptotic growth rates for lengths of monochromatic arithmetic progressions in certain automatic sequences. In particular, we look at (one-sided) fixed points of aperiodic, primitive, bijective substitutions and spin…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Ibai Aedo , Uwe Grimm , Neil Mañibo , Yasushi Nagai , Petra Staynova

The canonical van der Waerden theorem asserts that, for sufficiently large $n$, every colouring of $[n]$ contains either a monochromatic or a rainbow arithmetic progression of length $k$ ($k$-AP, for short). In this paper, we determine the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 José D. Alvarado , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Patrick Morris , Guilherme O. Mota , Miquel Ortega

The famous van der Waerden theorem states that if partition N into finitely many cells then one of them will contain arbitrary length arithmetic progressions. It has a polynomial version also. In this article we will prove the near 0…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Pintu Debnath , Sayan Goswami

In [Adv. Math., 321 (2017) 269-286], using the theory of ultrafilters, J. H. Johnson Jr., and F. K. Richter proved the nilpotent polynomial Hales-Jewett theorem. Using this result they proved the restricted version of the van der Waerden…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Sayan Goswami

The paper deals with extremal problems concerning colorings of hypergraphs. By using a random recoloring algorithm we show that any $n$-uniform simple (i.e. every two distinct edges share at most one vertex) hypergraph $H$ with maximum edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Jakub Kozik , Dmitry Shabanov

There are many extremely challenging problems about existence of monochromatic arithmetic progressions in colorings of groups. Many theorems hold only for abelian groups as results on non-abelian groups are often much more difficult to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Erik Sjöland

The polynomial version of van der Waerden's theorem, proved using dynamical systems by V. Bergelson and A. Leibman in 1996, \cite{Bergelson1996}, significantly highlighted the role of dynamical systems in addressing problems related to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Javad Jafari , Mohammad Akbari Tootkaboni

Van der Waerden's (VDW) colouring theorem in combinatoric number theory [1] has scope for physical applications.The solution of the two colour case has enabled the construction of an explicit mapping of an infinite, one dimensional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Debashis Gangopadhyay , Ranjan Chaudhury

We prove a known 2-coloring of the integers $[N] := \{1,2,3,\ldots,N\}$ minimizes the number of monochromatic arithmetic 3-progressions under certain restrictions. A monochromatic arithmetic progression is a set of equally-spaced integers…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Torin Greenwood , Jonathan Kariv , Noah Williams

For a given length and a given degree and an arbitrary partition of the positive integers, there always is a cell containing a polynomial progression of that length and that degree; moreover, the coefficients of the generating polynomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rudi Hirschfeld
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