Schur properties of randomly perturbed sets
Abstract
A set of integers is said to be Schur if any two-colouring of results in monochromatic and with . We study the following problem: how many random integers from need to be added to some to ensure with high probability that the resulting set is Schur? Hu showed in 1980 that when , no random integers are needed, as is already guaranteed to be Schur. Recently, Aigner-Horev and Person showed that for any dense set of integers , adding random integers suffices, noting that this is optimal for sets with . We close the gap between these two results by showing that if with , then adding random integers will with high probability result in a set that is Schur. Our result is optimal for all , and we further provide a stability result showing that one needs far fewer random integers when is not close in structure to the extremal examples. We also initiate the study of perturbing sparse sets of integers by using algorithmic arguments and the theory of hypergraph containers to provide nontrivial upper and lower bounds.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2205.01456,
title = {Schur properties of randomly perturbed sets},
author = {Shagnik Das and Charlotte Knierim and Patrick Morris},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.01456},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
27 pages, 5 figures An extended abstract has appeared in EuroComb2021