The product conjecture for finite transitive sets

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Let X⊂RmX\subset\mathbb R^m be a finite transitive set. A finite set Y⊂RdY\subset\mathbb R^d is kk-Ramsey for XX if every kk-colouring of YY contains a monochromatic subset congruent to XX. For a positive integer nn, regard XnX^n as a subset of Rmn\mathbb R^{mn}, and call a scalar multiple of it a scaling of XnX^n.

Product conjecture. For every positive integer kk, there exists a positive integer nn such that some scaling of XnX^n is kk-Ramsey for XX.

This is a stronger formulation of the transitive-set characterization: it would immediately imply the “if” direction. It abstracts the product-and-scaling constructions used in known proofs that particular sets are Ramsey. The paper states that it is equivalent to the main transitive-set conjecture, but does not establish it.

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Imre Leader, Paul A. Russell and Mark Walters, “Transitive Sets in Euclidean Ramsey Theory”, arXiv:1012.1350 (2010).

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