Erdős et al.'s conjecture on avoiding triangles in two-colored planes
Erdős et al.'s conjecture on avoiding triangles in two-colored planes
Let be a triangle in the Euclidean plane, and let a coloring be a partition of into two color classes. A coloring contains if it has a monochromatic copy of obtained by translations and rotations; otherwise, it avoids . Let be the coloring by alternating half-open horizontal strips of width , with a point black if and only if for some integer . Erdős et al.'s conjecture. For every triangle and every coloring , if avoids , then is an equilateral -triangle and is equal to an -times scaled copy of , up to possible modifications of the colors of points on the boundary of the strips. The paper presents a counterexample to this conjecture and gives a broader class of colorings avoiding the unit triangle, so this conjecture is refuted.
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Vit Jelinek, Jan Kyncl, Rudolf Stolar and Tomas Valla, “Monochromatic triangles in two-colored plane”, arXiv:math/0701940 (2007).
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