Schur-type arithmetic progression conjecture for primes

Let kk be a positive integer and color all primes with kk colors. For an integer l3l\geq 3, consider monochromatic primes p0,p1,p2,,plp_0,p_1,p_2,\ldots,p_l.

Schur-type conjecture. For every l3l\geq 3, there exist monochromatic primes p0,p1,p2,,plp_0,p_1,p_2,\ldots,p_l such that p1,,plp_1,\ldots,p_l form an arithmetic progression with common difference p01p_0-1.

This conjecture extends the proved Schur-type theorem for primes, which gives monochromatic primes satisfying p1+p2=p3+1p_1+p_2=p_3+1, and is motivated by the Green–Tao theorem on arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions in the primes. Its resolution is not supplied here.

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Hongze Li and Hao Pan, “A Schur-type addition theorem for primes”, arXiv:0804.0840 (2008).

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