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Monochromatic infinite sets in Minkowski planes

Combinatorics 2025-09-29 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove that for any p\ell_p-norm in the plane with 1<p<1<p<\infty and for every infinite MR2\mathcal{M} \subset \mathbb{R}^2, there exists a two-colouring of the plane such that no isometric copy of M\mathcal{M} is monochromatic. On the contrary, we show that for every polygonal norm (that is, the unit ball is a polygon) in the plane, there exists an infinite MR2\mathcal{M} \subset \mathbb{R}^2 such that for every two-colouring of the plane there exists a monochromatic isometric copy of M\mathcal{M}.

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@article{arxiv.2308.08840,
  title  = {Monochromatic infinite sets in Minkowski planes},
  author = {Nóra Frankl and Panna Gehér and Arsenii Sagdeev and Géza Tóth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.08840},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

10 pages, 3 figures; new section with concluding remarks and open problems

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