Brown–Graham–Landman Large Sets Conjecture
Brown–Graham–Landman Large Sets Conjecture
Let . A set is 2-large if whenever is two-colored, there are arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions with common differences in . It is large if whenever is finitely colored, there are arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions with common differences in .
Large Sets Conjecture. If is 2-large, then is large.
Every large set is 2-large, so the conjecture asserts that restricting van der Waerden's theorem to two colors is sufficient to obtain the corresponding result for every finite coloring. Brown, Graham, and Landman formulated this conjecture in the 1990s; the supplied source identifies it as open.
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Ryan Alweiss, “2-large sets are sets of Bohr recurrence”, arXiv:2512.01997 (2025).
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