Hindman's conjecture on monochromatic products and sums
Hindman's conjecture on monochromatic products and sums
Let be the set of positive integers, and let a finite coloring assign one of finitely many colors to each element of . A set is monochromatic if all of its elements have the same color. Hindman's conjecture. Any finite coloring of contains monochromatic sets of the form
The conjecture concerns the interaction between additive and multiplicative structure in finite colorings of the natural numbers. The source's abstract states a stronger result for -colorings, namely that infinitely many such monochromatic sets exist; this resolves the stated conjecture in the two-color case, while the finite-color formulation itself is presented here without a resolution status.
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Matt Bowen, “Monochromatic products and sums in 2-colorings of N”, arXiv:2205.12921 (2022).
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