Erdős Problem 195
What is the largest such that in any permutation of there must exist a monotone -term arithmetic progression ?
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What is the largest such that in any permutation of there must exist a monotone -term arithmetic progression ?
Are there infinitely many primes such that for some prime and , ?
Must every permutation of , contain a monotone 4-term arithmetic progression?
Is it true that there are infinitely many for which ?
Can be partitioned into two sets, each of which can be permuted to avoid monotone 3-term arithmetic progressions?
Is it true that for in a density 1 subset of the primes?
Is it true that for some constant and for all ?
Erdős, Hardy, and Subbarao [HaSu02], believed that the number of for which is .
[HaSu02] Hardy, G. E. and Subbarao, M. V., A modified problem of Pillai and some related questions. Amer. Math. Monthly (2002), 554--559.
Does the longest arithmetic progression of primes in have length ?
Is it true that ?
Is there an integer with such that none of are prime, for any ?
Let be the set of all such that there exists a prime such that . Does
exist?
Can every triangle-free graph on vertices be made bipartite by deleting at most edges?
Let be the set of all such that there exists a prime such that . What is
Let count the number of solutions to for prime and . Show that .
Similarly, if is the set of all primes such that there exists an with such that , then does
exist?
Is it true that ?
Originally asked to Erdős by Bose.
This is discussed in problem C11 of Guy's collection [Gu04].
Similarly, if is the set of all primes such that there exists an with such that , then what is
More generally, Bose and Chowla [BoCh62] conjectured that the maximum size of with all -fold sums distinct (aside from the trivial coincidences) then
Regarding the first question, Hardy and Subbarao computed all EHS numbers up to , and write "...if this trend conditions we expect [the limit] to be around 0.5, if it exists."