The product conjecture for finite transitive sets
Let be a finite transitive set. A finite set is -Ramsey for if every -colouring of contains a monochromatic subset congruent to . For a positive integer , regard as a subset of , and call a scalar multiple of it a scaling of .
Product conjecture. For every positive integer , there exists a positive integer such that some scaling of is -Ramsey for .
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.
References
Primary source
Imre Leader, Paul A. Russell and Mark Walters, “Transitive Sets in Euclidean Ramsey Theory”, arXiv:1012.1350 (2010).
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