The minimal red progression length in Euclidean Ramsey theory

For integers n,k1n,k\geq 1, let En\mathbb{E}^n denote nn-dimensional Euclidean space, and let s\ell_s denote a set of ss equally spaced collinear points. Write En(s,k)\mathbb{E}^n\rightarrow(\ell_s,\ell_k) if every red-blue coloring of En\mathbb{E}^n contains either a red copy of s\ell_s or a blue copy of k\ell_k. The minimal-length conjecture. There is an integer kk such that for every integer nn,

En↛(3,k).\mathbb{E}^n\not\rightarrow(\ell_3,\ell_k).

This conjecture asks whether three is the smallest first progression length for which some fixed blue progression length avoids the corresponding Euclidean Ramsey property in every dimension. The preceding results establish related positive and negative statements for other progression lengths, but the conjectured case s=3s=3 remains open.

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Andrii Arman and Sergei Tsaturian, “Equally spaced collinear points in Euclidean Ramsey theory”, arXiv:1705.04640 (2017).

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