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Off-Diagonal Continuous Rado Numbers $x_1 + x_2 + \dots + x_k = x_0$

Combinatorics 2025-11-26 v1

Abstract

In 2001, Robertson and Schaal found the 2-color off-diagonal generalized Schur numbers: for two positive integers kk and ll, they determined the smallest positive integer S=S(k,l)S = S(k, l) such that for any coloring of the integers from 1 to SS using red and blue, there must be a red solution to the equation x1+x2++xk=x0x_1 + x_2 + \dots + x_k = x_0 or a blue solution to the equation x1+x2++xl=x0x_1 + x_2 + \dots + x_l = x_0. We extend this result to find the continuous version: for two positive integers kk and ll, we find the smallest real number S=SR(k,l)S = S_\mathbb{R} (k, l) such that for any coloring of the real numbers from 1 to SS using red and blue, there must be a red solution to the equation x1+x2++xk=x0x_1 + x_2 + \dots + x_k = x_0 or a blue solution to the equation x1+x2++xl=x0x_1 + x_2 + \dots + x_l = x_0.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2511.20528,
  title  = {Off-Diagonal Continuous Rado Numbers $x_1 + x_2 + \dots + x_k = x_0$},
  author = {Don Vestal and Jonathan Sax},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.20528},
  year   = {2025}
}

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7 pages

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