The non-spherical obstruction conjecture for Euclidean Ramsey sets

Let XEdX\subset\mathbb{E}^d be a set, and call it non-spherical if it is not contained in the surface of a sphere of any dimension. Write m\ell_m for the relevant mm-point line configuration, and write En(X,m)\mathbb{E}^n\nrightarrow(X,\ell_m) when there is a two-colouring of En\mathbb{E}^n containing neither a monochromatic copy of XX in the first colour nor a monochromatic copy of m\ell_m in the second colour. Non-spherical obstruction conjecture. For every non-spherical set XX, there exists a natural number mm such that

En(X,m)\mathbb{E}^n\nrightarrow(X,\ell_m)

for all nn. This would establish the difficult converse direction of the proposed Ramsey characterisation for the important class of non-spherical sets; the source presents it as a first step toward the preceding conjecture.

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David Conlon and Yu-Han Wu, “More on lines in Euclidean Ramsey theory”, arXiv:2208.13513 (2022).

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