Published January 15, 2019
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Independent arithmetic progressions
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We show that there is a positive constant c such that any graph on vertex set [n] with at most cn^(2)/k^(2) log k edges contains an independent set of order k whose vertices form an arithmetic progression. We also present applications of this result to several questions in Ramsey theory.
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Conlon research supported by ERC Starting Grant 676632. Fox research supported by a Packard Fellowship and by NSF Career Award DMS-1352121. Sudakov research supported in part by SNSF grant 200021-175573. This note was first written in May 2015, predating a recent paper of Geneson [A note on long rainbow arithmetic progressions, arXiv:1811.07989] showing that T_k ≤ k^((5/2) + o(1)), and will form part of the forthcoming paper Short proofs of some extremal results III. We would like to thank Kevin Ford for some helpful discussions. We would also like to mention that recently József Balogh, Will Linz and Mina Nahvi independently investigated the question of estimating T_k and showed that T_k = k^(2 + o(1)).Attached Files
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- European Research Council (ERC)
- 676632
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- NSF
- DMS-1352121
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- 200021-175573
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