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A linear equation is $r$-regular, if, for every $r$-coloring of the positive integers, there exist positive integers of the same color which satisfy the equation. In 2005, Fox and Radoicic conjectured that the equation $x_1 + 2x_2 + \cdots…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-15 Noah Golowich

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

We discuss a theorem of Rado: Every r-coloring of the pairs of natural numbers has a path decomposition.

Logic · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Peter Cholak , Gregory Igusa , Ludovic Patey , Mariya Soskova , Dan Turetsky

A linear equation L is called k-regular if every k-coloring of the positive integers contains a monochromatic solution to L. Richard Rado conjectured that for every positive integer k, there exists a linear equation that is (k-1)-regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-05 Boris Alexeev , Jacob Tsimerman

The study of Ramsey-type problems for linear equations originated with Schur's theorem and was later placed in a systematic framework by Richard Rado. In the off-diagonal setting, one fixes a pair of distinct linear equations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Rajat Adak , Yash Bakshi , L. Sunil Chandran , Saraswati Girish Nanoti

In this paper, we present a simplified proof of Rado's Theorem and demonstrate that when an integer matrix $M$ satisfies the column condition and $M\mathbf x=\mathbf 0$ has an element-distinct solution on $\mathbb N$, then under any finite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Ningyuan Yang , Tianyi Tao

A well-known consequence of Schur's theorem is that for $r\in \mathbb{N}$, if $n$ is sufficiently large, then any $r$-colouring of $[n]$ results in monochromatic $a,b,c\in [n]$ such that $ab=c$. In this paper we are interested in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Roger Lidón , Darío Martínez , Patrick Morris , Miquel Ortega

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

A classical question in combinatorial number theory asks whether an equation has a solution inside a particular subset of its domain. The Rado's Theorem gives a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for a systems of linear equations to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Hongyi Zhou

In this article, we investigate homogeneous versions of certain nonlinear Ramsey-theoretic results, with three significant applications. As the first application, we prove that for every finite coloring of $\mathbb{Z}^+$, there exist an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Sukumar Das Adhikari , Sayan Goswami

We extend Deuber's theorem on $(m,p,c)$-sets to hold over the multidimensional positive integer lattices. This leads to a multidimensional Rado theorem where we are guaranteed monochromatic multidimensional points in all finite colorings of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Aaron Robertson

In 1982, Beutelspacher and Brestovansky determined the 2-color Rado number of the equation $$x_1+x_2+\cdots +x_{m-1}=x_m$$ for all $m\geq 3.$ Here we extend their result by determining the 2-color Rado number of the equation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-11 Dan Saracino

A simple graph-product type construction shows that for all natural numbers $r \ge q$, there exists an edge-coloring of the complete graph on $2^r$ vertices using $r$ colors where the graph consisting of the union of arbitrary $q$ color…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-20 Choongbum Lee , Brandon Tran

Consider an arbitrary coloring of integers with finite number of colors. Is it true that there are x, y such that x + y, xy and x have the same color? This is a well-known question of Ramsey theory has not solved yet. In the article we give…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-18 I. D. Shkredov

Given a linear equation $\mathcal{E}$, the $k$-color Rado number $R_k(\mathcal{E})$ is the smallest integer $n$ such that every $k$-coloring of $\{1,2,3,\dots,n\}$ contains a monochromatic solution to $\mathcal E$. The degree of regularity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Yuan Chang , Jesús A. De Loera , William J. Wesley

In this paper, we study a Ramsey-type problem for equations of the form $ax+by=p(z)$. We show that if certain technical assumptions hold, then any 2-colouring of the positive integers admits infinitely many monochromatic solutions to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Zsolt Baja , Dániel Dobák , Benedek Kovács , Péter Pál Pach , Donát Pigler

Let $r$ be a sufficiently large positive integer, and let $N \ge \exp\exp(r^{50})$. Then any $r$-colouring of $[N]$ contains a monochromatic copy of $\{x+y,xy\}$ with $x > y > 2$.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Ben Green , Mehtaab Sawhney

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

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

Suppose that each number $1,2,...,N$ has one of n colours assigned. We show that if there are no monochromatic solutions to the equation $x_1+x_2+x_3=y_1+y_2$, then $N=O((n!)^{1/2})$, improving upon a result of Cwalina and Schoen. Further,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Tomasz Kosciuszko