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A canonical restricted version of van der waerden’s theorem

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It is shown that there is a subsetS of integers containing no (k+1)-term arithmetic progression such that if the elements ofS are arbitrarily colored (any number of colors),S will contain ak-term arithmetic progression for which all of its terms have the same color, or all have distinct colors.

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  1. University of California, 90024, Los Angeles, USA

    H. -J. Prömel

  2. Inst. für Operations Research, Universität Bonn, 5300, Bonn-I, West Germany

    H. -J. Prömel & B. L. Rothschild

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Prömel, H.J., Rothschild, B.L. A canonical restricted version of van der waerden’s theorem. Combinatorica 7, 115–119 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02579207

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