Nonexistence conjecture for star-n idempotent ultrafilters
Nonexistence conjecture for star-n idempotent ultrafilters
Let . For ultrafilters on , define the operation by extending from to . An ultrafilter is -idempotent if .
Nonexistence conjecture. For any , -idempotent ultrafilters do not exist.
The conjecture concerns whether the Galvin–Glazer ultrafilter method can be extended to exponential configurations. Such an ultrafilter would yield patterns of the form and could provide an ultrafilter proof of the Sahasrabudhe–Schur theorem; the paper's results only restrict where a hypothetical -idempotent could lie.
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Primary source
Sayan Goswami and Sourav Kanti Patra, “Exponential Schur and Hindman Theorem in Ramsey Theory”, arXiv:2411.19606 (2024).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2023–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2308.02807.
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