Erdős Problem #1028 — Imbalance of Two-Colorings of Pairs

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For a finite set X⊆NX\subseteq\mathbb{N} and a coloring f:N×N→{−1,1}f:\mathbb{N}\times\mathbb{N}\to\{-1,1\}, define its imbalance on XX by

∣∑x<y∈Xf(x,y)∣.\left|\sum_{x<y\in X}f(x,y)\right|.

Let H(n)H(n) be the minimum, over all such colorings of pairs from {1,…,n}\{1,\ldots,n\}, of the maximum imbalance over all subsets X⊆{1,…,n}X\subseteq\{1,\ldots,n\}. Determine the asymptotic order of H(n)H(n); specifically, prove or disprove that

H(n)=Θ(n3/2)H(n)=\Theta\left(n^{3/2}\right)

as n→∞n\to\infty.

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