Partition regularity of the reciprocal parallelogram pattern

A finite coloring of Q\mathbb{Q} is a coloring using finitely many colors. A pattern is partition regular over Q\mathbb{Q} if every finite coloring of Q\mathbb{Q} admits parameters making all entries of the pattern the same color.

Reciprocal parallelogram conjecture. The pattern

{x, x+d, x+1d, x+d+1d}\left\{x,\ x+d,\ x+\frac{1}{d},\ x+d+\frac{1}{d}\right\}

is partition regular over Q\mathbb{Q}.

The conjecture asks for a version of a polynomial van der Waerden-type phenomenon allowing negative exponents of dd. The paper gives no proof and explicitly records the statement as expected to be true.

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Ryan Alweiss, “Monochromatic Sums and Products over Q”, arXiv:2307.08901 (2026).

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