Erdős Problem #199 — Three-Term Progression-Free Sets and Infinite Progressions
The assertion is false: it is not true that every set containing no three-term arithmetic progression has an infinite arithmetic progression with . Equivalently, there exists a three-term-progression-free set whose complement contains no infinite arithmetic progression.
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Pinned Formal Conjectures source, Apache-2.0.
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