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Combinatorial Structures on van der Waerden sets

Part of: Extremal combinatorics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2015

KONSTANTINOS TYROS
KONSTANTINOS TYROS*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK (e-mail: [email protected])
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Abstract

In this paper we provide two results. The first one consists of an infinitary version of the Furstenberg–Weiss theorem. More precisely we show that every subset A of a homogeneous tree T such that

$\frac{|A\cap T(n)|}{|T(n)|}\geqslant\delta,$
where T(n) denotes the nth level of T, for all n in a van der Waerden set, for some positive real δ, contains a strong subtree having a level set which forms a van der Waerden set.

The second result is the following. For every sequence (mq)q∈ℕ of positive integers and for every real 0 < δ ⩽ 1, there exists a sequence (nq)q∈ℕ of positive integers such that for every D ⊆ ∪k ∏q=0k-1[nq] satisfying

$\frac{\big|D\cap \prod_{q=0}^{k-1} [n_q]\big|s}{\prod_{q=0}^{k-1}n_q}\geqslant\delta$
for every k in a van der Waerden set, there is a sequence (Jq)q∈ℕ, where Jq is an arithmetic progression of length mq contained in [nq] for all q, such that ∏q=0k-1Jq ⊆ D for every k in a van der Waerden set. Moreover, working in an abstract setting, we may require Jq to be any configuration of natural numbers that can be found in an arbitrary set of positive density.

MSC classification

Primary: 05D10: Ramsey theory
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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 24 , Issue 6 , November 2015 , pp. 929 - 953
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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